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NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space

Written by  Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:12
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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 spacecraft's kinetic 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 dem
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