One of NASA’s biggest crowd-pleasers in years is about to reach its denouement: if all goes well, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft (or rather guided anti-space-rock missile) will impact its target at around 14,700 miles per hour.
You can watch it live-ish right here at about 3 PM Pacific.
But it will affect it a little — enough to measure, meaning we can tell how much force was imparted on it and other factors.
The good news is that large asteroids are fairly easy to spot if they’re not already on the books (thousands of objects are tracked by astronomers worldwide).
We don’t need a planet-killed to take a hard right and miss the Earth by 50 million miles — a little tap while it’s still on the outskirts of the solar system might be all it takes to ensure it passes a safe distance away, or gets captured by another planet, or burns up in the sun.
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