asteroidimpactavoidance
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A Powerful Recoil Effect Magnified NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Experiment
Scientists continue to pore over the results of NASA’s stunningly successful DART test to deflect a harmless asteroid. As the latest findings suggest, the recoil created by the blast of debris spewing out from Dimorphos after impact was significant, further boosting the spacecraft’s influence on the asteroid.
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How DART Scientists Know the Experiment to Shove an Asteroid Actually Worked
Earlier this week, NASA announced that its DART spacecraft successfully moved an asteroid by a few dozen feet. This raises a valid question: How the heck did scientists figure this out, given that Dimorphos is nearly 7 million miles away? Needless to say, this task required some clever astronomy and a veritable village of astronomers.
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The Most Intriguing Images of DART’s Fatal Encounter With an Asteroid
NASA’s DART spacecraft was 6.8 million miles from Earth when it slammed into a football stadium-sized asteroid on Monday. Despite this immense distance, images from the impact and its aftermath are coming in, and they’re proving to be better — and far more bizarre — than we expected.
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Impact! NASA’s DART Spacecraft Crashes Head-On Into Asteroid
The 607 kg spacecraft ploughed directly into Dimorphos as intended. Astronomers now need to determine the potential impact of the test.