The asteroid 2023 MU2 will pass within 134,000. Another tiny satellite, which snuck out of DART on the way to its target, will also be watching. A massive asteroid is expected to pass between Earth and the moon on Sunday night, making its way past Earth at 7:19 p.m. The $308 million spacecraft's lone instrument is the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation, or DRACO, and it will be switched on for final dive, taking a photograph every second. Once DART has been destroyed, ground-based space telescopes will evaluate Didymos and Dimorphos to see just how much the orbit has changed. DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is the worlds first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against a potential asteroid or comet impact. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is scheduled to launch no. In recent weeks, a team from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has been assessing the asteroid pair from a distance, making sure we have a firm understanding of the asteroids' orbits. NASA's asteroid impact mission is set to launch, and you can watch the event and several science briefings live. The carefully arranged death dive will destroy the DART and, if all goes to plan, alter the orbit of Dimorphos around Didymos ever so slightly.
The mission is designed as a test run of planetary defense with the intention of proving that a deep-space collision can alter the orbit of a space rock. The asteroid Dimorphos, which circles a larger asteroid known as Didymos, poses no threat to Earth.
News By Brandon Specktor published 27 February 2023 A trio of enormous. NASA on Wednesday launched a spacecraft with one simple mission: Smash into an asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour. By Sophie Lewis Updated on: Septem/ 7:56 PM / CBS News Update: NASA successfully crashed the spacecraft into the asteroid. First, we should reiterate there's no need to be alarmed. Astronomy Asteroids NASA warns of 3 skyscraper-sized asteroids headed toward Earth this week.
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