DART was a smashing success – NASA's mission to redirect an asteroid has changed the orbit of the asteroid Didymos, shortening it by 32 minutes
The plumes of ejecta streaming from the Dimorphos asteroid after NASA’s DART mission made impact with itThe Double Asteroid Redirect Test mission was officially a success. Its crash into Dimorphos changed the small asteroid’s orbit around its larger host asteroid, Didymos, shortening it by 32 minutes.on 26 September, sending an enormous plume of material shooting off the asteroid’s surface.
in a press conference announcing the result. Computer simulations of the collisions predicted that the orbit would change by a few minutes to a few tens of minutes, so the final result is on the high end of what we expected, Glaze said.from Earth and space alike – four of the most powerful telescopes on Earth have observed it every single night since the smash-up.
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