HAMMER (spacecraft), the Glossary
Hyper-velocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) is a concept study by NASA on a spacecraft (8 tonnes) capable of detonating a nuclear bomb to deflect an asteroid, if it was on a collision course to Earth.[1]
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13 relations: Asteroid, Asteroid impact avoidance, BuzzFeed, Daily Mirror, Earth, ExtremeTech, NASA, National Nuclear Security Administration, NDTV, Nuclear weapon, The Daily Telegraph, TNT equivalent, 101955 Bennu.
- Impactor spacecraft
- Missions to asteroids
- Planetary defense
Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
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Asteroid impact avoidance
Asteroid impact avoidance encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted away, preventing destructive impact events. HAMMER (spacecraft) and Asteroid impact avoidance are Planetary defense.
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BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.
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Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech is a technology weblog, launched in June 2001, which focuses on hardware, computer software, science and other technologies.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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National Nuclear Security Administration
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science.
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NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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TNT equivalent
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.
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101955 Bennu
101955 Bennu (provisional designation) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999.
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See also
Impactor spacecraft
- AIDA (international space cooperation)
- Deep Impact (spacecraft)
- Deep Space 2
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test
- ExoLance
- HAMMER (spacecraft)
- LCROSS
- Luna 2
- Lunar penetrometer
- Mars 96
- Mars MetNet
- Moon Impact Probe
- OMOTENASHI
- Ranger 6
- Ranger 7
- Ranger 8
- Ranger 9
- S-IVB
Missions to asteroids
- AIDA (international space cooperation)
- ASTER (spacecraft)
- Chang'e 2
- DESTINY+
- Deep Impact (spacecraft)
- Deep Space 1
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test
- HAMMER (spacecraft)
- Hayabusa Mk2
- Hera (space mission)
- Janus (spacecraft)
- LICIACube
- Lucy (spacecraft)
- OKEANOS
- Vesta (spacecraft)
Planetary defense
- AIDA (international space cooperation)
- Alien invasion
- Asteroid Redirect Mission
- Asteroid impact avoidance
- Asteroid impact prediction
- Asteroid laser ablation
- Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and ExplorRation
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test
- Gravity tractor
- HAMMER (spacecraft)
- Impact events
- Ion-beam shepherd
- LICIACube
- List of Earth-crossing asteroids
- List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
- List of predicted asteroid impacts on Earth
- NEAR Shoemaker
- Near-Earth Asteroid Scout
- Near-Earth object
- Near-Earth objects
- OSIRIS-REx
- Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale
- Potentially hazardous object
- Sentinel Space Telescope
- Sentry (monitoring system)
- Torino scale