Asteroid behaving weirdly after Nasa crash
Last year, Nasa successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission.
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Last year, Nasa successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission.
NASA's DART mission had an effect on Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit last year. The asteroid that NASA's DART mission successfully hit last year, Dimorphos, has been discovered by researchers to be behaving erratically in space, with the team noticing a change in its orbit.
The five asteroids range from plane to bus-size, and one is expected to come to within half a million miles of Earth.
When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why
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