Watch it live here courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project or on the project's YouTube channel. 01:09 What we covered The DART mission humanity’s first test of planetary defense successfully s lammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. NASA will live stream the event at the space agency’s YouTube channel, the NASA app. That was the motivation behind NASAs recent Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which intentionally smashed a rocket into an asteroid to alter its orbital speed. The Virtual Telescope Project, hosted by Rome-based astronomer Gianluca Masi, will be streaming the flyby of asteroid 2023 MU2 at 7 p.m. The DART spacecraft is scheduled to impact its target asteroid on Monday, September 26, at 7:14 p.m. Tonight at 7:14pm ET, its on track to crash into the asteroid Dimorphos and livestream the impact for all of us back on Earth to watch.
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While these types of asteroids can be fairly hard to spot on your own, luckily you can watch the approach live thanks to a free telescope livestream. 53 mins 00 secs Double Asteroid Redirection Test What is DART DART was the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact. 2023 MU2 will make its closest approach on June 25 at 7:19 p.m. According to the NASA/JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid is estimated to be between 13 and 29 feet (3.9 and 8.8 meters) in diameter, roughly the size of a house or three-story building. In a successful attempt to alter the orbit of an asteroid for the first time in history, NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. While this flyby is fairly close in astronomical terms, the space rock isn't likely to pose any threat to Earth or spacecraft in its orbit.
Tonight (June 25), the near-Earth asteroid 2023 MU2 will pass within 134,000 miles (215,000 kilometers) of Earth, or just about 60% of the average distance from our planet to the moon. Watch NASA's DART asteroid impact through telescopes in webcast Space Home News Skywatching NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on Sept.
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