In a firstofitskind mission, NASA plans to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26. (Earth Time) and you can stream it live.
Mankind’s first experiment to deflect harmful asteroids from our planet, the socalled mission Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, it means change the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos by 1%. Dimorphos is not on a collision course with Earth, but the 520foot space rock is were heading towards us, we’d be in bad shape, so NASA is using it as a test case to divert a hypothetical future murderer asteroid
Where to watch the NASA asteroid collision
The spaceship smashing into a space rock is happening around seven o’clock millions of miles from Earth, but NASA sent a spacecraft with cameras to capture all the action. The space agency plans to broadcast the climax of the mission the official NASA website, Facebook page, Source from Twitteri YouTube channel.
When will the NASA spacecraft crash into Dimophos?
The DART mission began nearly a year ago, and the climactic crash landing will occur on September 26 at 7:14 PM ET. Live coverage of the event begins at 6 pm ET.
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What’s the point of NASA crashing a ship into an asteroid, anyway?
Space rocks enter Earth regularly, but most burn up in the atmosphere, and most of those lands are too small to do much damage. Bbut if a large enough asteroid were to be headed our way, it would be cataclysmic. The dinosaurs were likely wiped out by an asteroid that hit Earth about 66 million years ago, so NASA is taking the first steps to prevent a similar catastrophe from befalling humans.
“We don’t want to be in a situation where an asteroid is headed for Earth and then has to test that kind of capability. We want to know how the spacecraft works and what the reaction is going to be…before we get into a situation like this,” said Lindley Johnson, NASA’s planetary defense officer USA Today in november
No one is really sure if the spacecraft’s momentum will be enough to deflect the asteroid, but the science data collected by NASA could help in future killer space rock scenarios (even if they lead us to the conclusion that we can’t do nothing..)
How worried should we be about being killed by an asteroid?
Whether we Whether you should worry at all about a space rock hitting the earth or constantly worry about it depends on your point of view. There are more than 27,000 nearEarth objects in our solar system. As far as we know, none of them pose a threat to our planet, but we also know that millions of meteorites bombard E.art every day, although most of them are too small to pass through the atmosphere without burning up. Eventually, our luck will run out, though. There’s no telling how long it will be until an extinctionlevel meteor hits Earth again; it could be in 18 million years, or it could be next month. Sor forward and have an extra piece of cake.