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NASA asteroid mission could completely deform small moonlet, simulation suggests

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NASA asteroid mission could completely deform small moonlet, simulation suggests

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor can severely deform the small asteroid it will collide with, a new simulation suggests. It was earlier thought that the DART impactor would leave behind a crater. The DART impactor is an ambitious mission to test the viability of using a kinetic impactor to deflect an asteroid heading … Read more

Star Wars, Actually! NASA to launch Earth’s first defense test mission against asteroids on November 23; Details

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DART has been built over the last one and a half years, the agency said. (Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman) Hazardous Asteroids: US space agency NASA is all set to launch its planetary defense test mission – the first one to be carried out yet. The mission is called Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART … Read more