{"id":131120,"date":"2021-11-23T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/armageddon-come-true-when-and-where-to-watch-tonight-as-spacex-launches-a-nasa-spacecraft-to-smash-into-an-asteroid"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:50:17","slug":"armageddon-come-true-when-and-where-to-watch-tonight-as-spacex-launches-a-nasa-spacecraft-to-smash-into-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/armageddon-come-true-when-and-where-to-watch-tonight-as-spacex-launches-a-nasa-spacecraft-to-smash-into-an-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Armageddon\u2019 Come True? When And Where To Watch Tonight As SpaceX Launches A NASA Spacecraft To Smash Into An Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21X5lGlDOfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If we knew that a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) was headed for Earth could we deflect it?<\/p>\n<p>Seeking to find out is the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a mission from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to smash a 500kg spacecraft into binary asteroid 65,803 Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos (also called, rather cutely, \u201cDidymoon.\u201d) <\/p>\n<p>The idea is that by creating a \u201ckinetic deflection\u201d on Dimorphos it will ever so slightly change the trajectory of both objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we knew that a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) was headed for Earth could we deflect it? Seeking to find out is the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a mission from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to smash a 500kg spacecraft into binary asteroid 65,803 Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos (also called, rather cutely, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}