Grade B8 sourcesHIS-01027
DART’s asteroid impact
Moment · 2022 · Niche
NASA reported 9.2 million views of its DART impact-footage tweet.
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- Impact-footage tweet views
- 9.2M
- One tweet · NASA 2022 recap · Cutoff unspecified · X · Self-reported · NASA
- Seed to milestone
- 1 day
- Sep 26 ’22 to Sep 27 ’22
- Platforms
- 3
- Started on YouTube
- Origin
- Seeded
- Education
How it spread
Trace the originNASA and APL turned impact night into a shared countdown: watch-party handouts, hands-on activities and a photo gallery let local hosts join the broadcast. The campaign team reported nearly 1.1 million concurrent viewers at peak.
Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak.
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September 2022
NASA seed · Sep 26 ’22
DART’s live camera feed ended when the spacecraft hit Dimorphos.[3]
NASA milestone · Sep 27 ’22
NASA’s collision broadcast became the number-one trending video.[2]
ABC News Australia press · Sep 27 ’22
ABC News followed the impact and post-impact briefing in a live report.[4]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Added: 5 events, 5 sources · Score 40
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