Tag: Will there be an asteroid in 2021?

At 1:21 a.m. EST on November 24, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the ensuing few hours, the spacecraft established communication with mission operators and successfully unfurled its solar arrays .

More huge asteroids to approach Earth in the coming weeks One of the closest approaches Earth will see will come Friday, when the asteroid WK1 2021 , about 64 feet long, will come within 652,000 miles of Earth.

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact . Goals. Demonstrate asteroid deflection with a kinetic impactor. Launch.