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Nasa asteroid watch live feed1/3/2023 ![]() ![]() There is a NASA Science Live event as well, about the DART mission that features NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, DART coordinator lead Nancy Chabot, and telecommunications subsystem integration and test lead engineer Joshua, Ramirez Rodriguez. Science Live Event Featuring DART Mission ![]() In connection to this, a follow-up mission by the European Space Agency known as Hera was to visit the same system in 2026. It is anticipated to collide with Dimorphos, an asteroid moon, in the fall of 2022,ĭimporphos is orbiting the Didymos asteroid, which is near enough for scientists to see probable impacts through terrestrial telescopes. NASA ASTEROID WATCH LIVE FEED TVTo watch NASA's test, live, one can tune it to the space station's TV channel either via the video embedded at the page's top part or by visiting the website of NASA.Ĭoverage of the DART launch starts on November 23, Tuesday at 12:30 a, exhibiting prelaunch activities, including the launch itself.Ī News of America reports specified that DART has an ambitious mission to impact and redirect the path of an asteroid for the first time in history. Published at : 10:28 AM (IST) Tags: nasa asteroid empire state building Asteroids near-Earth object Follow Science News on abp LIVE for more latest stories and trending topics.(Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL on Wikimedia Commons)Īn infographic showing the effect of DART's impact on the orbit of Didymos B while the deployment of Italian LICIACube Similarly, observers can use the stars HIP 7620, HIP 7184, and HIP 7011 as the reference stars at 6:15 am, 7:05 am, and 7:30 am IST respectively. Some people may use the Finder maps provided by EarthSky to determine the location of the asteroid, at 4:55 am IST, 5:15 am IST, 6:15 am IST, 7:05 am IST, and 7:30 am IST on January 19.Īt 4:55 am IST on January 19, people can use a computerised or GoTo Telescope, and point the instrument at the reference star HIP 8210 to easily detect the asteroid, which will appear as a "slowly moving star" in front of the reference stars.Īt 5:15 am IST, one can point the GoTo telescope at the faint galaxy IC 1723 to locate the asteroid. In images with shorter exposures, the asteroid will be seen as points of light appearing in different locations in the images. In an image which has been exposed for several seconds, one can see the space rock's motion as a streak of light. The person must point the camera and telescope at a reference star or object in the trajectory of the asteroid. One may attach a camera to the telescope and take exposures of 30 to 45 seconds. People may use a small telescope to see the asteroid, and make sure that their equipment is pointed at the correct time and location. Observers using a 6-inch or larger backyard telescope from a dark sky site can get a decent view of an object at 10th magnitude, according to EarthSky. Also, the asteroid will shine at a magnitude of around 10. Amateur astronomers can view the asteroid using a backyard telescope, and can spot it due to its considerable speed. This is 5.15 times the Earth-Moon distance.Īsteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) is travelling at a speed of 43,754 miles per hour or 19.56 kilometres per second relative to Earth. The asteroid will pass by Earth at a distance of 1.2 million miles or 1.93 million kilometres. ![]() This will be the closest approach for the asteroid for at least the next 200 years. The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth on January 18, at 4:51 pm EST (January 19 at 3:21 am IST), according to the EarthSky. Astronomers have calculated the orbit of the asteroid for the next 200 years. The astronomers were aware of its trajectory and have determined its orbit using 47 years of observations. The potentially hazardous asteroid was discovered by Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia on August 9, 1994.Īstronomers had observed the asteroid earlier as well, with some observations dating back to September 1974. However, people need not be worried about 1994 PC1 despite its close approach because it is safely pass Earth, the report said. An asteroid (near-Earth object) as big as this strikes Earth approximately once every 600,000 years. ![]()
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