So it looks like NASA is about to do something. What could possibly go wrong?
- NASA's mission to deflect an asteroid using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch
- The DART spacecraft will head towards the Didymos binary on November 24 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
- It will smash into Didymoon at roughly 13,500mph on October 2, 2022
- Didymoon came close to Earth in 2003, coming within 3.7 million miles
- According to NASA, over 25,000 near-Earth objects have been discovered
Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the U.S. space agency will send the DART spacecraft to a pair of asteroids - the Didymos binary - at 1:20 a.m. EST on November 24 aboard a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in
California.
DART will smash in one of the two asteroids, known as Didymoon, at roughly 13,500mph on October 2, 2022.
In doing so, it will change the speed of Didymoon a fraction of a percent, but it will be enough so NASA can measure its altered orbit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...eroid-hitting-Earth-November-agency-says.html