Free 60-min webinar!!!

Audience: Formal & Informal Educators in Grades K-12

Subjects: Asteroids, Comets, Meteorites, Forces, and Motion

Summary: This is a free webinar for a deep dive into the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA's first planetary defense test mission. Launched in 2021, DART will be kinetically impacting Dimorphos – a known asteroid (with no threat to Earth) on Sept. 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. DART is the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards. The goal is to slightly change the asteroid’s motion in a way that can be accurately measured using ground-based telescopes. The test will provide important data to help better prepare for an asteroid that might pose an impact hazard to Earth, should one ever be discovered.

The webinar will take place on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. EDT.