Planetary Defense Coordination Office

DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission – NASA

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DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission – NASA

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be honored with the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement. For its work developing and managing the first-ever planetary defense test mission, the team comprised by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is being lauded for outstanding achievements in the fields … Read more

Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023

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Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with orbits that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit. NASA established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) to manage the agency’s ongoing efforts in Planetary Defense, which is the “applied planetary science” to address the NEO impact hazard. One … Read more

Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery – NASA

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test Post-Impact Image Gallery – NASA

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. as the world’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space. Over the coming weeks, ground based observatories around the world … Read more