DART Quiz

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time.

• True

• False

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NASA established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office in 2016 to:

• • Identify and track near-Earth objects

• • Study strategies and technologies to protect the planet against potential threats

• • Coordinate the U.S. government’s planning and response to an actual impact threat

• • All of the above

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What is the name of the first mission to come out of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office?

• • Duo Android Reconnaissance Test

• • Double Asteroid Redirection Test

• • Double Asteroid Rendezvous Trip

• • Dispersing Analogous Robot Threats

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How many asteroids are in the Didymos asteroid system?

• 1

• 2

• 4

• 9

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What will the DART mission aim to do at Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos?

• • Send a gravity tractor to fly alongside the asteroid moonlet for a long period of time to slowly pull it in a different direction

• • Use a nuclear device to break Dimorphos up into smaller pieces

• • Fly an impactor spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet at 14,000 mph to give it a "shove," known as the kinetic impact technique

• • Vaporize the asteroid with lasers

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True/False: The DART spacecraft is much bigger than the asteroid it aims to impact.

• True

• False

DART's impact with Dimorphos aims to test asteroid deflection through a transfer of what?

• • School credit

• • Heat

• • Acceleration

• • Momentum

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DART will be traveling at 14,000 mph. How will it be able to accurately hit the asteroid?

• • The power of positive thinking

• • A state-of-the-art autonomous navigation system

• • By using The Force

• • A geotagging location service triangulated by the satellite network on Earth

How far away will DART's target asteroid be from Earth at the time of DART's impact?

• • About 6.7 million miles from Earth

• • About 6.7 million meters from Earth

• • About 6.7 thousand miles from Earth

• • About 6.7 billion miles from Earth

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After DART's impact, how will we know if the spacecraft successfully "shoved" Dimorphos and changed the asteroid's motion in space?

• • The probes on the moon's surface will convey the "all clear" message to mission control 5-10 minutes after impact

• • Astronomers will use telescopes to measure the change in time it takes Dimorphos to orbit its parent asteroid before and after DART's impact

• • A secondary spacecraft, the Evaluator 5000, will be sent to survey the impact site and provide an estimate of damage from a safe orbit

• • A rainbow will appear

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