Keith’s 8 March update: NASA PAO has contacted me to tell me that they have corrected this issue. Keith’s original note: NASA issued a press release on 1 March 2023 about newly published results from the DART mission. In that release they link to four papers in Nature magazine about DART mission results. Except when you go to the links that NASA posted you quickly find out that you can only read the abstracts of these papers – not the full paper that is behind Nature’s paywall (see the screen grab from Nature). You have to pay money out of your own pocket to read each of the papers. That’s odd. Repeated calls from the OSTPs in both the Obama and Biden Administrations were made to make access to government-funded research open and transparent for all taxpayers as soon as possible (see “OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay” from 25 August 2022). More below.

Keith’s note: I was on Al Jazeera Arabic again – this time doing a follow-up on the DART mission news and explaining the value of both detecting and deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids – by punching them. Audio below:

Keith’s note: Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1), 1 kilometer in diameter will fly by Earth today 4.51 p.m. ET. It is moving at 47,344 miles per hour and will get no closer than 1.2 million miles. I was on CNN this morning to talk about this fly by and NASA’s DART mission to impact another asteroid, (65803) Didymos this Fall. Keith Cowing · SpaceRef on CNN: Asteroid Flyby

Keith Cowing · SpaceRef on Deutsche Welle: Launch of the NASA DART Mission Keith Cowing · SpaceRef on Alhurra: NASA's DART Mission Keith Cowing · SpaceRef on Deutsche Welle: NASA's DART Mission