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NASA spacecraft will slam into an asteroid Monday — if all goes right
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A vending machine-sized spacecraft that is 7 million miles from Earth is expected to crash into an asteroid on Monday evening, which has scientists and engineers in the suburbs of Washington on edge.
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This will occur at 7:14 p.m. Eastern time, or more precisely: 7:14:23, if all goes according to plan and the rules of gravity and motion don't change at the last second.
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Other than displaying a technique that one day might save humanity, there is nothing crucial at stake in this situation.
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The targeted asteroid hasn't done anything wrong to warrant this attention, and it's vital to remember that it poses no threat to Earth.
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA's first test of "planetary defence," is at a crucial point because of the cosmic collision.
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This mission aims to demonstrate how a "kinetic impactor" could divert a potentially hazardous asteroid away from the Earth.
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