ICYMI: NASA scientists performed the world's first mission testing planetary defense — and they want you to watch how it happened.
will take place at 6 p.m. ET from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, which builds and manages the DART spacecraft.
Researchers expect the kinetic impact to take place at 7:14 p.m. ET. The space agency is also hosting an Dimorphos and Didymos to scale with familiar structures on Earth.Scientists launched the small, $330 million probe last fall, sending it to travel nearly seven million miles away from Earth. It's carrying another small spacecraft called LICIACube, which will be released from DART 10 days before impact in an attempt to photograph the collision and resulting debris.
Astronomers currently estimate there are about 25,000 near-Earth asteroids that are 500 feet or larger in size. DART will hopefully provide critical data to aid researchers in preparing for a future asteroid that could have a catastrophic impact on our planet — if they happen to discover one.
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