DART Hits Asteroid Bull's Eye
On September 26, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART, crashed into the moon of an asteroid to change its speed and orbit. It was intentional, of course, to prove that it’s possible to use kinetic impactor as a technique to deflect an oncoming object to defend Earth from an oncoming asteroid.
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