• How to Watch NASA Crash a Spaceship Into an Asteroid

    From Internetado@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 31 15:22:20 2022
    In a first-of-its-kind mission, NASA is planning to crash a spacecraft
    into an asteroid on September 26 (Earth time), and you’ll be able to
    stream it live.

    Humanity’s first experiment in diverting harmful asteroids from our
    planet, the mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or
    DART, is meant to change the asteroid Dimorphos’ orbit by about 1%.
    Dimorphos is not on a collision course with Earth, but if the 520-foot space-rock were headed towards us, we’d be in bad shape, so NASA is
    using it as a test case for diverting a hypothetical future killer
    asteroid.
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    https://lifehacker.com/how-to-watch-nasa-crash-a-spaceship-into-an-asteroid-1849475013
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