Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon? | SciShow News
If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are being thrown for a loop with the orbits of planets around a star in the constellation Pisces. Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet, Jason A Saslow, Heriberto Bustos, and David Brooks! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart https://phys.org/news/2021-10-video-nasa-scientist-asteroid-earth.html https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nasa-deflect-asteroid-planetary-defense.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211027122107.htm https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41527-21/aa41527-21.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/science/perpendicular-planets-star-system.html https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac0f03 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/829/1/L9/meta https://eos.org/articles/peculiar-planets-prefer-perpendicular-paths https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2019/11/aa35944-19.pdf https://www.planetary.org/articles/color-shifting-stars-the-radial-velocity-method Image Credits: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/a-stylized-animated-background-of-a-meteor-heading-for-a-dramatic-collision-with-the-earths-north-pole-sgmthv24-j4t6xq6y https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asteroid-in-outer-space-with-moon-background-gm1286250317-382815858 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infographic_showing_the_effect_of_DART%27s_impact_on_the_orbit_of_Didymos_B.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_IRAM_30-meter_telescope.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DART-Illustration-revised.jpg https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/index.php https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/solar-system-animation-sesb1cjuukob5ywum https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/7332/hd-3167-d/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1016a/ https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41527-21/aa41527-21.html https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/astronomer-with-a-telescope-watching-at-the-stars-and-moon-my-astronomy-work-gm1200892456-344145307 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble/50174348192/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrownDwarf-Illustration.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-reveals-mysteries-of-interstellar-space
