{"id":146801,"date":"2022-09-22T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/countdown-to-dart-impact"},"modified":"2022-09-22T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:24:00","slug":"countdown-to-dart-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/countdown-to-dart-impact","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to DART Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/countdown-to-dart-impact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a first-of-its-kind test for planetary defense, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft is scheduled next week to crash into an asteroid and alter the celestial body\u2019s course.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, on September 26th at 7:14 pm Eastern Daylight Time, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft will meet a fiery end. DART, whose name stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is poised to intentionally crash into an asteroid that, at the time of impact, will be 11 million km from Earth. The goal of the mission is to alter the speed and trajectory of the impacted space boulder. The technology developed for the mission could one day aid in shifting the orbit of an asteroid that\u2014unlike this one\u2014is on a collision course with Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur DART spacecraft is going to impact an asteroid in humanity\u2019s first attempt to change the motion of a natural celestial body,\u201d said Tom Statler, a scientist in NASA\u2019s planetary defense team, in a recent press conference about the mission. \u201cIt will be a truly historic moment for the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first-of-its-kind test for planetary defense, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft is scheduled next week to crash into an asteroid and alter the celestial body\u2019s course. If all goes according to plan, on September 26th at 7:14 pm Eastern Daylight Time, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft will meet a fiery end. DART, whose name stands for Double Asteroid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146801","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}