Equipment List:
\nx 1 High speed camera
\nx 1 Meter stick
\nx 1 Large metal ball
\nx 1 Small metal ball
\nx 1 Computer<\/p>\n
Set-up of demonstration:<\/p>\n
The basic idea is to have a bird’s eye view of the test model within a circular area with a specific radius where the smaller ball (the kinetic impactor) would be launched from a central launching point (assumed to be Earth) at a larger ball (the asteroid) to collide and deviate the larger ball off-course. There will be different speeds of the smaller ball to determine the optimal parameters necessary to deflect an asteroid coming towards Earth without catastrophic effects.<\/p>\n
Week of September 23rd:<\/p>\n
Monday<\/span><\/p>\n Diagram model for camera set-up.<\/p>\n Wednesday<\/span><\/p>\n Start filming deflector (kinetic impactor) model. Measure input data (how heavy are the objects and distance).<\/p>\n Friday<\/span><\/p>\n Continue filming. Extrapolate data from model to generate an asteroid of randomly generated dimensions for mathematical models.<\/p>\n Week of September 30<\/p>\n Monday<\/span><\/p>\n Model gravity and nuclear blast impact through mathematical equations.<\/p>\n Tuesday<\/span><\/p>\n Enter LaTex + data<\/p>\n Wednesday<\/span><\/p>\n Post.<\/p>\n Week of October 7<\/p>\n Monday<\/span><\/p>\n Write conclusion and compile results.<\/p>\n Tuesday<\/span><\/p>\n Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Equipment List: x 1 High speed camera x 1 Meter stick x 1 Large metal ball x 1 Small metal ball x 1 Computer Set-up of demonstration: The basic idea is to have a bird’s eye view of the test model within a circular area with a specific radius where the smaller ball (the kinetic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}