LIVE Asteroid Tracking Near Earth

👍 If you like WorldCam content, please hit the Like, Subscribe and even leave a comment for more great content. Thank you! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Tracking Asteroid closest approaches to Earth. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). Launched from Earth in November 2021, the mission will deliberately crash a space probe into the minor-planet moon Dimorphos of the double asteroid Didymos to assess the future potential of a spacecraft impact to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth through a transference of momentum. The asteroid poses no actual threat to Earth; it was merely selected for the test. Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects, predicts their close approaches with Earth, and makes comprehensive impac