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New results from NASA’s DART planetary defence mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids
CTIO / NOIRLab / SOAR / NSF / AURA/ T. Kareta (Lowell Observatory), M. Knight (US Naval Academy)…
NASA successfully shifted an asteroid’s orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the orbit of the small moonlet Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL David…
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission
Didymos (bottom right) and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos (center) were the targets of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test.…