Cape Canaveral, Florida – NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test aims to make history Monday at 7:14 p.m. ET when it smashes into Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. If the impact is successful, it will slightly alter the motion of the asteroid. It’s a test of deflection technology that could one day be used to protect Earth if a space rock is identified on an impact path with our planet. Currently, there are no asteroids (including Didymus and Demorphos) that are expected to hit our world. Here’s…
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NASA’s DART mission will crash spacecraft into Dimorphos asteroid in first-of-its-kind experiment!
Cape Canaveral, Florida – In a first-of-its-kind experiment to save the world, NASA is about to hit a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft called DART will be working on the asteroid on Monday, bent on hitting it head-on at 14,000 miles per hour (22,500 kilometers per hour). The impact should only be enough to push the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock – showing that if a deadly asteroid headed our way, we’d have a combat opportunity to divert it. Cameras…
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