NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks' orbit around the sun
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What happened: In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission deliberately slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos. Now, scientists have confirmed that not only did DART alter Dimorphos' orbit around its binary companion, but it...
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NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks' orbit around the sun
In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission deliberately slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos. Now, scientists have confirmed that not only did DART alter Dimorphos' orbit around its binary companion, but it...