Another Asteroid mission

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This time it's a bit more 'kinetic'.
Part of the shelved AIDA collaboaration, NASA has continued with DART, a pair of craft that will monitor the high speed impact into half a binary asteroid

Double Asteroid Redirection Test - Wikipedia

Launching in 18 months time DART will also fly past another rock, Orpheus to have a gander.

 

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A week away from target, Dimorphous the moon of Didymos.

Didymos & Dimorphos - NASA Science

Overview Asteroid Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos make up what’s called a binary asteroid system – meaning the small moon (Dimorphos) orbits the larger body (Didymos). The two asteroids are not a threat to Earth, but because they do pass relatively close to Earth, they were chosen as the...

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Impact confirmed.

 

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Debris field

DART impact gave asteroid Dimorphos a debris tail thousands of miles long (stunning photo)

The latest Science & Astronomy,/science-astronomy,,science-astronomy,science-astronomy breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at Space

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A success.

NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space - NASA

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí.

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of sorts.

 

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Very good

dart asteroid - Google Search

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Final analysis.

DART's epic asteroid crash: What NASA has learned 5 months later

We now know that we can knock an asteroid off course.

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Final analysis.

DART's epic asteroid crash: What NASA has learned 5 months later

We now know that we can knock an asteroid off course.

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Perhaps not

Asteroid behaving weirdly after Nasa crash

It was spotted by a team of high school students.

metro.co.uk