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DART asteroid crash: What time will NASA probe hit Dimorphos on Sept. 26?

NASA's DART spacecraft will crash into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. Here's how the day will unfold.
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How to watch NASA's DART spacecraft crash into an asteroid live online today

DART hopes to budge a space rock from its orbit in a safe planetary defense test Sept. 26.
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Last photo of asteroid Didymos before DART impact​


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(Image credit: ESO/Bagnulo et al.)
Monday, September 26, 2022: This may be the last picture of asteroid Didymos before its encounter with NASA's asteroid-smashing probe DART.

The dot of light in this image, captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile on the night of September 25/26, is in fact two asteroids combined — Didymos and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos which will be the ultimate target of the collision with DART.


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NASA to deflect asteroid in key test of planetary defense

Laurel, United States (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 - NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth.
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Direct impact or nuclear weapons? How to save Earth from an asteroid

Laurel, United States (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 - NASA's DART mission to test deflecting an asteroid using kinetic impact with a spaceship is just one way to defend planet Earth from an approaching object - and for now, the only method possible with current technology.
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Live Coverage of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

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Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO)

NASA Planetary Defense: Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets, but their orbits can bring them into Earth’s neighborhood - within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit. Planetary defense is “applied planetary science†to address the NEO impact...
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The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid – Teachable Moment | NASA JPL Education

Find out more about the historic first test, which could be used to defend our planet if a hazardous asteroid were discovered. Plus, explore lessons to bring the science and engineering of the mission into the classroom.
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Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in this image from Oct. 4, 2021.

DART was launched on Nov. 23, 2021, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg. The spacecraft will intentionally smash into the moonlet Didymos on Sept. 26, 2022, to see if this method of asteroid deflection—known as the kinetic impactor technique—would be a viable way to protect our planet if an asteroid on a collision course with Earth were discovered in the future.

Image Credit: USSF 30th Space Wing/Aaron Taubm

Last Updated: Sep 26, 2022
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Golden DART’s Galactic Unboxing

Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in this image from Oct. 4, 2021.
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jeffb said:
Really hoping we get some close up shots of Didymos post impact. Would love to see what sort of structure we're dealing with here.
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Just seen the first images before the Didymos impact on the BBC News channel this morning, DART hit dead centre.
 
Close up image before impact.

View: https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1574684733287542784

Impact images from China this time:

View: https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1574751669857841152
 
First LICIACube images:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1574770713273442306
View: https://twitter.com/alexwitze/status/1574770713273442306

More JWST images:

View: https://twitter.com/landru79/status/1574776954070437889
 
Might the cube get a closer look at the crater? I wonder if tidal pertubations might fill it in by the time Hera gets there...
 
Teamwork makes the dream work For the first time, @ESA_Webb and @HUBBLE_space have observed the same target at the same time. And it's not just any target... it's the aftermath of the #DARTMission collision with #asteroid Dimorphos!
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View: https://twitter.com/esascience/status/1575478446515400704

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

Two of the great space observatories, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique experiment to smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid. Observations of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact mark the first...
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FighterJock said:
Grey Havoc said:

Asteroid-smash aftermath: Why Europe is sending a probe to DART-battered Dimorphos

'We need a spacecraft detective that comes on the site and gives us the final outcome details.'
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We need a follow up probe to look at what the damage was that DART caused to Dimorphos. Let's see what becomes of the European mission, it will be interesting know how much of the surface was blown off the asteroid and also what happened to Dimorphos's orbit.
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Already got you covered with ESA’s Hera mission, see video up thread.
 
Flyaway said:
FighterJock said:
Grey Havoc said:

Asteroid-smash aftermath: Why Europe is sending a probe to DART-battered Dimorphos

'We need a spacecraft detective that comes on the site and gives us the final outcome details.'
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We need a follow up probe to look at what the damage was that DART caused to Dimorphos. Let's see what becomes of the European mission, it will be interesting know how much of the surface was blown off the asteroid and also what happened to Dimorphos's orbit.
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Already got you covered with ESA’s Hera mission, see video up thread.
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Interesting Flyaway, I will be following Hera with interest.
 
i really wish there was a way we could have gotten LUCIACube close enough to get a small real-time video of DART slamming into Dimorphos. to see how all the pieces and particles reacted so we could fully understand how we got the formation we did. (which was absolutely FASCINATING!) and besides. who wouldn't want to see that? im glad that we were able to have the opportunity to successfully do this the first time. now i think this is a good opportunity to also test a nuclear version that could actually disband the asteroid from its orbit. or destroy it. it's a perfect testing ground. it's relatively close and it's a moving target. we could make this work. because if we can hit that? we can hit pretty much anything
 

DART asteroid crash seen by James Webb, Hubble space telescopes (photos)

"For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos."
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New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'

Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 - The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as astronomers indicated that the impact looks to have been much greater than expected.
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View: https://twitter.com/ngc3314/status/1575964911523729408


Last night, @SARA_Obs Chile: Didymos/Dimorphos dust trails. 7x5m tracked on asteroids, stars filtered. WNW trail extends to 165", projecting to ~8600 km. (0410-0500 UT 30 Sept., ~78 hours after impact, R band)
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FighterJock said:
Flyaway said:
Good thread about the impact.

View: https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill/status/1574905023888334858
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Interesting that the impact of DART created streamer’s, I wonder what could have caused them?
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Like lunar rays
 


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