The jury in the "Kyle Rittenhouse" case is already on its second day of deliberations. The jury in the "Kyle Rittenhouse" case is already on its second day of deliberations On Wednesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, jurors began their second day of deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The jury deliberated all day Tuesday without reaching a decision, and they notified the court that they would return in the morning to complete their investigation. In the August 2020 shootings in Kenosha that killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz after a tumultuous night of protests following the police death of Jacob Blake, Rittenhouse faces five felony counts. Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, maintains he was acting in self-defense. He stated that he traveled to Kenosha equipped with an AR-15 like weapon to assist with the protection of local businesses and to offer first aid. Last week, he testified in his own defense, breaking down in tears when...
NASA is preparing to keep an asteroid it described as "dangerous" from colliding with Earth.
NASA indicated that it will launch a mission in November, to protect the planet, and push a dangerous asteroid with a spacecraft.
NASA's mission is to deflect the asteroid into deep space, known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
The mission is heading to the asteroid at 1:20 a.m. EDT on November 24 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from a base in California.
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, DART will smash into an asteroid known as “Didymoon”, at a speed of approximately 13,500 mph on October 2, 2022.
Also, in doing so the Didymoon's velocity would change by a fraction of a percentage, but it would be enough for NASA to be able to measure its changing orbit, and this would provide valuable input into future asteroid-disbursing missions.
The asteroid is approximately 160 meters (524 ft) wide and orbits a much larger space rock known as Didymus that is about 780 meters (2,559 ft) wide.
It is worth noting that "Didymoon" came relatively close to Earth in 2003, with a distance of 3.7 million miles, and it is also likely to hit Earth due to the presence of more space rocks that have not been detected by NASA and the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) so far.
NASA said in a statement that DART will be the first demonstration of kinetic impact technology, which involves sending one or more large spacecraft into the path of an asteroid in space to alter its motion.
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