The 1998 blockbuster Armageddon was about a fictional last-ditch attempt by NASA to stop a speeding asteroid headed toward Earth.
Now, 25 years later, the U.S. space agency has a movie showing just what asteroid-kicking really looks like.
During the immediate aftermath of the DART mission — NASA's first asteroid target practice — the Hubble Space Telescope captured the hour-by-hour changes as the space rock cast off over 1,000 tons of debris.
NASA made history by knocking an asteroid off course. Now, it's publishing the data | WSIU
Last September, NASA made history by knocking an asteroid off course. A mission called DART crashed a spacecraft the size of a golf cart into an asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: The asteroid is named Dimorphos.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: Once the spacecraft went whammo, those images stopped. But telescopes on the ground and in space showed that the impact kicked up a huge cloud of dust and debris.
Astronomers still have their eyes on that asteroid NASA whacked
Astronomers are still watching that asteroid that NASA whacked with a spacecraft back in September, in the first-ever test of whether an asteroid could be deliberately pushed off-course.
Almost immediately after NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission sent a golf cart-sized spacecraft crashing into an asteroid called Dimorphos, scientists hailed it as a huge success – and a powerful demonstration that an asteroid's trajectory can be altered.
The asteroid once thought to be one of Earth's biggest risks
EARTH ( WETM ) – It’ll show up a few more times before 2029, but when it does, the people of Earth won’t have anything to worry about.
The story of Apophis starts in 2004. The 1,100-foot rock was picked up by scientists in the summer, and it was nothing remarkable, according to Scientific American. But in a matter of months, calculations of its orbit determined it had a 1-in-37 (2.7%) chance of hitting Earth in April 2029.
NASA snapped close-up pics of passing asteroid 2011 AG5 | SYFY WIRE
In the 2014 disaster movie Asteroid vs. Earth (now streaming on Peacock !), astronomers discover a wave of impactors on a collision course with our planet.
On Feb. 3, 2023, the asteroid known as 2011 AG5 made its closest approach with Earth, toppling slowly end over end as it cruised by.
El Telescopio espacial Hubble capta el histórico choque de la nave DART contra un asteroide. Si miras con mucho det… https://t.co/wyUU1PNaIh CNNEE (from En todas partes) Fri Mar 03 22:35:01 +0000 2023
If we use the NASA DART just once.. it will justify every dime spent on NASA up to that point a Trillion Times over… https://t.co/GhWeuu6FTZ HalSparks (from Turn off Notifications! Boom!) Thu Mar 02 17:55:48 +0000 2023
Bullseye! 🎯 @NASAHubble captured a series of images of the asteroid Dimorphos after it was deliberately hit by the… https://t.co/fX0aj73oNg NASAGoddard (from Greenbelt, MD USA) Thu Mar 02 16:36:07 +0000 2023
Successfully targeting an asteroid during a high-speed encounter. ✅ Changing the asteroid's orbit. ✅ DART's impac… https://t.co/pNrSmbKdgA NASA_Marshall (from Huntsville, Alabama USA) Thu Mar 02 16:26:04 +0000 2023
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