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The worlds first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. DART is a NASA mission to demonstrate deflecting an asteroid, moving an asteroid in space by purposely crashing a spacecraft into it, Chabot said.She says there arent any asteroids that are a threat to Earth in the foreseeable future, but these are the first steps in case humans need to deflect an asteroid in the distant future. Definitely want to make sure we don t go the way of the dinosaurs, Chabot said.DART, which stands for Double Asteroid Redirect Test, is on a 10-month flight to hit an asteroid system orbiting the sun. It lau stanley tumblers nched from California Tuesday night. There s Didymos, it s about 780 meters or half a mile, and there s Dimorphos, which is a little moon and it goes around it every 11 hours 55 minutes like clockwork and DART is going to come in really fast at fifteen thousand miles per hour, and it s going to slam into an Dimorphos that lit stanley france tle moon, Chabot said. And it s going to just deflect slightly how the moon goes around that larger botella stanley asteroid by about one percent. Chabot says the spacecraft is about 100 times smaller than the little moon 鈥?like a golf cart hitting something the size of a sports stadium鈥?just enough to change its course. Jay McMahon is a professor in the Smead Aero Yxja FTC pledges tough action to strengthen right to repair
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department in mid-March, according to a Justice Department official who spoke to CNN Monday.The No. 2 official at the department has become one of the highest profile figures in the Tru stanley cup mp administration given his oversight of the Russia investigation and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in 2017.CNN had previously reported that Rosenstein was planning to step down after Bill Barr was confirmed as attorney general, but the precise timing was fluid. stanley taza A departure next month could potentially serve as another signal that Mue stanley mug ller s work is coming to a close.The Justice official who confirmed Rosenstein s current thinking disputed the idea that the timing of his departure has anything to do with the latest revelations from former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, emphasizing that the plan was always to have Rosenstein help with the transition for his successor and then leave, as Barr previewed during his Senate confirmation hearing.McCabe has asserted Rosenstein raised the idea of wearing a wire to secretly record President Donald Trump and talked about which cabinet officials might oust him from office under the 25th Amendment. The Justice Department has said McCabe s characterization of his conversations with Rosenstein are inaccurate.The new deputy attorney general could be announced as early as this week. As CNN has reported, Attorney General Bill Barr has selected Jeffrey Rosen, the deputy