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On Sept. 26, 2022, at 7:14 pm EDT, NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft slammed into an asteroid moonlet called Dimorphos, which orbits around a larger asteroid named Didymos. Dimorphos, roughly 163 meters in diameter, was not threatening anything. It was minding its own business, circling Didymos, when a spacecraft from Earth, roughly the…
NASA has confirmed the success of its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is
This is the first successful test of our ability to redirect potentially cataclysmic asteroids.The asteroid's orbit changed by more than half an hour.
Continue reading to learn how a planetary defense test's DART hit altered an asteroid's orbit.
NASA has released the results from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and if the space agency's planetary defense mission was successful.