Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

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Asteroid Defense Mission Shifted The Orbit Of More Than Its Target

By Ars Technica

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a binary asteroid system. By intentionally ramming a probe into the 160-meter-wide moonlet named Dimorphos, the smaller of the two asteroids, humanity demon ...Read more