DART

[BeBMan]

NASA claims it's shooting stuff at asteroids to save Mother Earth:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63039191

Sounds great, but not so fast! For all we know it could be another Biden-plot to declare war on innocent Space Aliens!

If this was a serious endeavour to protect our planet surely Bruce Willis would be involved

President Whitmore +100

[BlackCat]

Googles take on it

[BeBMan]

Nice

[Proteus_MST]

There also was an Italian Cubesat following behind DART in order to take pics of the Impact.

The first 4 ones have been released a few hours ago ... they look fascinating

https://twitter.com/LICIACube/status/1574791158844346368

[N35t0r]

There also was an Italian Cubesat following behind DART in order to take pics of the Impact.

The first 4 ones have been released a few hours ago ... they look fascinating

https://twitter.com/LICIACube/status...91158844346368

I was waiting for those! I actually stayed up until 1:15 AM the other night to watch this live.

[Proteus_MST]

I was waiting for those! I actually stayed up until 1:15 AM the other night to watch this live.

Same here ... and I didn't get disappointed.
Interesting view of Dimorphos ... would have expected it to be rockier ...
most likely just a ball of gravel and dust, which explains why there is so much ejecta

[Lorizael]

So far every asteroid of that size we've seen up close has just been a rubble pile held loosely together by gravity.

Along with LICIACube, there was also a fairly large groundbased observing campaign as well as a few space telescopes. This from ATLAS was pretty spectacular: https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA/s...83529731670021

[Bereta_Eder]

was that in a greek neighborhood? (all the names)