DART strikes its asteroid. That was exciting and impressive!

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DART Mission

DART strikes an asteroid

DART – the Double Asteroid Redirect Test – has struck its target. DART is the first real test of our ability to defend ourselves from an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. For this test, DART targeted Didymos B – aka Dimorphos – a little asteroid moon just 525 feet (160 m) in diameter. It struck the little asteroid – hoping to nudge it slightly off-orbit – at 7:14 p.m. ET (23:14 UTC) on Monday, September 26, 2022.

You can still check for NASA coverage on the agency’s website. NASA will also hold a post-event briefing to discuss what happened. Watch via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (looks like the livestream on YouTube is not yet posted, as of 6 a.m. ET (10 UTC) on September 26).

This test will show if we’re ready to take on any threatening asteroids that could be headed our way.

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For those  who don't follow this sot of  thing SHAME!

An on-orbit demonstration of asteroid deflection is a key test that NASA and other agencies wish to perform before any actual need is present. The DART mission is NASA's demonstration of kinetic impactor technology, impacting an asteroid to adjust its speed and path. DART will be the first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. The spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Launch:
November 23, 2021, 10:21 p.m. PST
(November 24, 2021, 1:21 a.m. EST)

DART Impact:
September 26, 2022, 7:14 p.m. EDT

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Sep 27, 2022 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission finished yesterday in a spectacular crash into the Asteroid Dimorphos