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Momentum of the pushed-off stuff would push the asteroid. that may work. but even simpler and more straightforward is just hitting the asteroid with something very small but going very, very fast. dart, double asteroid redirection test, is going about four miles a second. four miles a second. >> wow. >> so it has a lot of momentum. so when we hit this smaller asteroid, we are very hopeful that it will give it a nudge. now, the composition of the asteroids is not exactly known. so theyre so-calle...

An explosion. the heat would volatize, vaporize, oblate, burn off some of the asteroid, and that momentum of the pushed-off stuff would push the asteroid. that may work. but even simpler and more straightforward is just hitting the asteroid with something very small but going very, very fast. d.a.r.t., double asteroid redirection test, is going about four miles a second, four miles a second. >> wow. >> so it has a lot of momentum. so when we hit this smaller asteroid, we are very hopeful that it...

Case for themselves as the party that americans should want in charge of the government. but first, all of those things that joe biden says are going to happen, have to actually happen. congress has to pass the social spending bill. the supply chain has to get back in working order. gas prices and inflation have to come down. and second, democrats have to do the one thing that seems to bedevil them more than anything else, sell their accomplishments. joe biden was vice president the last time a ...

That momentum of the pushed off stuff. that me work. but even simpler, and more straightforward, is just hitting the asteroid with something very small but going very very fast. dart, double asteroid redirection test, is going about four miles a second. for miles a second. >> wow. >> so it has a lot of momentum. we hit this asteroid, we are very hopeful that it will get it a notch. the composition of the asteroid is not exactly known. so there are so called escape yes, we are confident that when...

Responded to the 9/11 attacks moments before the last tower collapsed is taking the term decorated to a whole new level. christopher r costa talks about his pocket square heroes. thank you for your service, we appreciate it and thank you for taking time to join us. an important week for sure. >> absolutely. heather: tell us about the pocket square heroes, your mission is what youre trying to do. >> four years ago i created it to connect with returning afghanistan and iraq veterans, my way to get...

Minutes, four miles a second. this is a minute or minute and a half every two or three days. the other thing is theyre operating about 2 or 300 miles above the earth. theyre not 23,000 miles above the equator. theyre fast moving and we dont exactly know which satellite this came from, but the problem is -- this is 80 feet long and theyre much larger than a shipping container. we just dont know. >> we just dont know. but they found something. tim, before you go, final question for you. would thes...

It goes at 2,000 miles a second. martha: it can weigh 5 trillion-tons, which is just hard to wrap your britain around. >> the sun is so big that the numbers are hard to even fathom. the thing you really need to understand is when youre looking at the sun there the sun is a hundred times as wide as the earth. our entire planet to fit into one of those little curleyques in that picture. the amount of energy and power that is coming at is is tremendous. its invisible to the naked eye but you can se...

This is part of that. what it allows private industry to get access to space, develop their own space stations innovate and make money in space the way nasa is not chartered to do. jon: kind of interesting private american company that the nation of north korea has not on able to do get a rocket into earth orbit. the challenge though is still to come when you get this ship close to the space station. tell us about that. >> right. rendezvous is one of the trickiest maneuvers in space bring togeth...