https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11249767/amp/What-time-NASA-Dart-mission-today.html

NASA's first 'planetary defence' craft will try to deflect asteroid Dimorphos, which is 6.8 million miles from us.

$325 million mission may sound like the plot of Hollywood blockbuster such as Armageddon or Deep Impact.

But it could prove useful for altering the course of an asteroid years or decades before it bears down on Earth.

 

The goal isn't to destroy it, but to move its trajectory by 1%.

I expect it will be anti climatic to watch, but still a big night.

 

Impact at 7:14 pm. est today.

17 minutes out...NASA says they have confirmed precision lock.

10 month, 470,000,000 mile shot to hit an asteroid orbiting around another asteroid. 

Plan B if this fails.

14,000 mph screaming through space...impact seem imminent. 

Signal lost, confirmed impact.

Camera view from the Dart appears to confirm a direct hit to the center of the asteroid. 

That was wild to watch.