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Studying the Effects of the DART Mission on Planetary Defense

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Tom Patton
Dec 01, 2023
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In September, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world’s first planetary defense test mission successfully impacted the moonlet of binary asteroid Didymos to adjust its speed and trajectory. DART demonstrated critical technology that could one day be used to protect Earth from a dangerous asteroid or comet and set the stag…

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