First results from ESO telescopes on the aftermath of DART's asteroid impact
ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
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MIT postdoc Saverio Cambioni discusses new science from NASA’s DART mission, which slammed into asteroid Dimorphos, deflecting it slightly and finding it to be a boulder-rich “rubble-pile.”
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…
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact wit
NASA announced that its experimental spacecraft Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully altered the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos.