144: Deflecting asteroids with Brent Barbee

Feb 10

Written by Carrie Nugent

Brent Barbee returns to the show to talk about deflecting asteroids. He explains how an asteroid might react to an impact, and also talks about the proposed DART mission, which would change the orbit of a small asteroid moon.

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