D imorphos is easily one of the least interesting objects in the solar system. It’s a rock—a moonlet, really—measuring just 160 m (525 ft.) across, orbiting the asteroid Didymos, which itself measures only 780 m (2,560 ft). Located 11 million km (6.8 million mi.
But on Monday, Sept. 26 at precisely 7:14 p.m. ET, the attention of much of the astronomical community will be directed at Dimorphos.
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The Earth has been playing hide-and-seek with asteroids for a while now. But it doesn't always win. In March, an asteroid named 2022 EB5 crashed into the planet north of Iceland in a remote coastal area.
The reason NASA is able to predict and report on asteroids that are about to approach us not just today but months later is because of a very special telescope known as the NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer).
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But now another study suggests dinosaurs were already on their way out millions of years before the fated meteorite hit, according to an analysis of over 1,000 fossilized eggshells unearthed in central China.
"Dinosaurs went extinct gradually over millions of years, instead of coming to an abrupt end from sudden disasters," study author Qiang Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told the South China Morning Post .
DART: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid
SpaceX provided a ride into space for NASA's DART mission, the first attempt to test out an Earth protection plan from asteroids by crashing a spacecraft into one.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away.
NASA's unprecedented DART mission will intentionally slam a spacecraft into an asteroid next week
A golf cart-sized spacecraft will intentionally smash into a tiny asteroid at about 14,000 miles per hour on September 26. It's humanity's first test of our ability to deflect dangerous incoming space rocks.
"I'm highly confident that we are going to hit on Monday and that there will be a complete success," Lindley Johnson, NASA's first planetary defense officer, told reporters at a press conference on Thursday.
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from ...
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The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth.
I am a scholar who studies space and international security, and it is my job to ask what the likelihood really is of an object crashing into the planet – and whether governments are spending enough money to prevent such an event.
One NASA asset will be critical to Moon and asteroid missions' success
The Deep Space Network (DSN) listens to more than 40 missions in our Solar System , including the Voyager spacecraft adrift in interstellar space.
These messages will track two of the most important missions NASA will perform this year: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in hopes of changing its path, and the Artemis I rocket launch, which will investigate technology that might soon ...
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NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday and you can watch it through telescopes online… https://t.co/GWmr0haokJ SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Sat Sep 24 12:17:35 +0000 2022
A NASA spacecraft will slam into a small, harmless asteroid to try to change its orbit on Monday, a first-of-its-ki… https://t.co/RdJueN1xrt Phil_Lewis_ (from Washington, DC) Thu Sep 22 23:01:48 +0000 2022
On Monday, a NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos. The DART mission aims to se… https://t.co/RuNctJSNnS CNN Fri Sep 23 23:31:05 +0000 2022
In 3⃣ days the #DARTMission spacecraft will intentionally crash into a small asteroid moonlet. DART is @NASA's firs… https://t.co/dNIdCu7uQc AsteroidWatch (from Washington, D.C.) Fri Sep 23 19:24:43 +0000 2022
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