The cosmic target practice
Punching a space rock
The gentle art of gravity tugging
Detectives and shields
YOUR GOAL
Master of The art of the cosmic nudge
007skaty DART Asteroid Redirection
We hit that asteroid Dimorphos And gave it a giant cosmic nudge!
007skaty NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations program continuously scans the sky, tracking over 35,000 discovered asteroids while smaller rocks remain
007skaty The massive Chicxulub asteroid blazes through the atmosphere just moments before impact.
007skaty Flick your astro buddy past planets to master the science of cosmic gravity nudges.
Asteroid dust: Over 100 tons of tiny space dust and particles rain down on Earth's atmosphere every single day, completely harmlessly.
A spacecraft designed to alter the trajectory of an astronomical object by colliding with it at high speed. In 2022, NASA's DART mission successfully crashed a probe into the asteroid Dimorphos to test this technology.
007skaty Gravitational keyholes alter asteroid paths to guarantee future planetary impacts
Which United Nations-backed group coordinates global telescope data to identify hazardous near-Earth objects?
How wide is the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid?
Roughly what percentage of earth-threatening asteroids over 1 kilometer wide have astronomers successfully cataloged?
What physical property of an asteroid determines how much its path is bent during a planetary flyby?