Unistellar Citizen Science Network and SETI Institute Contribute to Planetary Defense

Unistellar Citizen Science Network and SETI Institute Contribute to Planetary Defense Citizen scientists and SETI Institute researchers collaborate to observe and analyze NASA’s DART impact and confirm the efficiency of the kinetic impactor technique to... More

Unistellar Citizen Science Network and SETI Institute Contribute to Planetary Defense Citizen scientists and SETI Institute researchers collaborate to observe and analyze NASA’s DART impact and confirm the efficiency of the kinetic impactor technique to deflect an asteroid. PRESS RELEASE DATE March 1, 2023, Mountain View, CA – Citizen scientists worldwide made decisive contributions to defend our planet by recording accurate and meaningful March 1, 2023 observations supporting the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) CONTACT mission. The team, including eight SETI Institute astronomers and led by SETI Rebecca McDonald Institute postdoctoral fellow Ariel Graykowski published their results in Nature Director of on March 1. Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org DART impact as observed by Bruno Payet from the Réunion Island on September 26, 2022. View full GIF here. NASA’s first test mission for planetary defense, DART, which seeks to test and validate a method to protec Less