Asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft

Asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
Studies reveal final moments before NASA probe crashed into an asteroid. (Nature)

Last September, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smashed into an asteroid, deliberately altering the rock’s trajectory through space in a first test of planetary defence.

Now scientists have deconstructed the collision and its aftermath — and learnt just how successful humanity’s punch at the cosmos really was.DART, which was the size of a golf cart, collided with a Great Pyramid-sized asteroid called Dimorphos. The impact caused the asteroid’s orbit around another space rock to shrink — Dimorphos now completes an…

Knesset committee okays bill sharply limiting judicial review; opposition: ‘Putsch’ | The Times of Israel

‘Putsch’
Knesset committee okays bill sharply limiting judicial review; opposition: ‘Putsch’ | The Times of Israel by Jeremy Sharon (timesofisrael.com)

Opposition MKs boycott the final Constitution Committee vote at Knesset in protest at conduct of panel; Yisrael Beytenu MKs denounce legislation as a ‘regime putsch’

[sc name="voicefemlower" ][/sc] The government-backed bill to radically restrict the High Court of Justice’s ability to strike down unconstitutional legislation was approved in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Wednesday morning and will now be sent for its first reading in the Knesset plenum, amid opposition outrage directed at committee chair MK Simcha…

Suspects in Huwara settler rampage out of custody; IDF vows to probe ‘lawlessness’ | The Times of Israel

Huwara
Suspects in Huwara settler rampage out of custody; IDF vows to probe ‘lawlessness’ | The Times of Israel by Emanuel Fabian (timesofisrael.com)

3 detained over rioting sent to house arrest and 5 released, authorities say, with no new arrests in mob violence; Halevi says manhunt for West Bank gunmen continues

All Israeli suspects detained during the Sunday night rioting in the West Bank town of Huwara have been released, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Military chief Herzi Halevi meanwhile vowed to investigate the “lawlessness.”Hours after a shooting attack that killed brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, from the settlement of Har Bracha, hundreds…

Building A Preferred Future. It’s about much more than leaving… | by Stephen P. Anderson | Feb, 2023 | Medium

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Building A Preferred Future – Stephen P. Anderson – Medium by an author (Medium)

Yeah, yeah, I know — please keep reading. It’s deeper than all that. This is something I’ve been thinking about long before the recent swirl and chaos…

My use of Twitter for the past several years has been a cautious and guarded one. Various events seeded some scary thoughts in my mind: What if Twitter was gone tomorrow? What if I got locked out of my account? What if all my data was deleted? What if I could no longer reach out…