i am outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there has been growing opposition from protesters, citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, in central london. in the last few hours nasa has successfully managed to test the world s first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course of a large object roughly the size of a football stadium. a live camera relayed the spacecraft s final few seconds to nasa scientists before it crashed into the rock.
well in advance. the dart mission is the first step in finding a solution, and in the coming days and weeks, scientists will be assessing whether their test has been successful. it s a demonstration of a technology that could one day save our planet. rebecca morelle, bbc news. i have some more i have some more on a i have some more on a story we brought you about coercive control. a government agency said strengthening their response is a priority and through statutory guidance they are supporting front line services to better identify and respond to domestic abuse, including coercive control and emotional abuse. if you are affected by anything raised in the report we showed you earlier you can find help and support@bbc.co.uk/ action line. the headlines on bbc news: the bank of england says it
overnight, scientists at nasa have deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid, aiming to push it off course. and apparently it has all worked. the dart mission is the first test of the technique, and it s hoped that it ll teach us how to change the speed and path of future asteroids and planets. it doesn t even sound real, does it? it doesn t even sound real, does it? i know! our science editor, rebecca morelle, has been taking a look at what happened. closing in on the target. images beamed back from seven million miles away as a nasa spacecraft approaches an asteroid. the details of the rocky world are revealed, but this probe isn t here to study it. its job is to knock the space rock off course by smashing into it. ..two.one! oh, wow. and this was the reaction from mission control. cheering. this space rock poses no threat. this is a test to see how we could deal with one on a collision course with the earth. i definitely think that, as far as we can tell, our first pla
After 10 months of flying in space, NASA s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) the world s first planetary defence technology demonstration successfully impacted its asteroid target, the agency s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
whenever anything changes, the collectors always want an example of the new design or the new denomination, and the queen was up to her sixth portrait that s over a period of obviously 70 years. so it doesn t change that often, and when it does, it attracts a great deal of interest. that s one side of the notes, but anyone with a £20 or £50 note should look on the other side, too. the adam smith 20, and the 50 featuring the portraits of manufacturers matthew boulton and james watt lose their legal tender status on saturday. the pair will still be here on the golden boys statue in birmingham, but their high value banknotes won t be accepted in the shops. they may have only been on our currency for a decade, but the withdrawal of the boulton and watt £50 note also marks a change in 300 years of history. that s because it s the end of paper banknotes in circulation. for the first time, the entire bank of england collection will be made of polymer. 2.50, then, please, lovely.