Hitting A Fired Bullet, With Another Fired Bullet, 7 Million Miles Off, Moving At 14,000 MPH! Only 17 Meters Off Dead Center.

And we watched it all, in near real time — at under 40 seconds after it transpired, out there in the blackness — just allowing for speed of light transmission, and three more seconds to render the images, each.

Here it is — a complete success. That is actual DART onboard cam footage, below, BTW. We will have to wait a day or two to see how much it perturbed the orbit of Dimorphos (via ground based and space based telescopes), though:

This is an amazing evening, for humanity: the first time any human made object has moved the orbit of a celestial body of size. Whoosh — grinning.

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