NASA made it clear in August that the asteroid on which it is testing DART poses no threat to earth. If your cable/satellite provider doesn’t carry that channel, you can watch on:ĭoes this asteroid pose any threat to earth currently? NASA is doing blanket coverage on all of its properties, including NASA TV. Where can I watch the rocket crash into the asteroid? NASA expects the impact will take place at 7:14 p.m. The spacecraft will impact the Dimorphos asteroid on Mon., Sept. Want to watch DART square off against an interstellar intruder? Here’s how. And its scientists want to have a contingency plan in place should one of them end up on a collision course, so we don’t go the way of the dinosaurs. It might sound a bit silly to some, but the space agency notes that there are roughly 25,000 large (500 feet or bigger) asteroids that are near the earth, each big enough to destroy a city. That craft will film the collision and debris. 16, DART released a smaller spacecraft it was carrying, called LICIACube. ET.īetter still: We’ll be able to watch this 14,000 miles per hour collision happen from roughly 7 million miles away. Impact with Dimorphs is expected to take place Monday, Sept. The goal, say scientists, isn’t to blow up the asteroid, but rather to change its speed and path (which will be measured using telescopes on earth). It currently circles a larger asteroid called Didymos. The 19-meter spacecraft will be crashed, deliberately, into Dimorphos, which is about twice as high as the Empire State Building and 525 feet wide.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will see if we’re able to defend ourselves against asteroids or comets that are on a high-speed trajectory toward Earth.

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