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DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Orbit in Space: NASA

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Tom Patton
Oct 12, 2022
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Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the DART mission impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of…

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