NASA's DART: Redirecting an asteroid to protect Earth

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
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A Mission To Redirect An Asteroid

In movies, asteroids careening towards Earth confront determined humans with nuclear weapons to save the world! But a real NASA mission to change... A Mission To Redirect An Asteroid In movies, ...
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The DART mission successfully changed the motion of an asteroid

CNN — The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos when the NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into the space rock on September 26, according ...
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Bam NASA's dart spacecraft slams into moonlet in asteroid system

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...
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Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid

In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering its orbit ...
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How we track near-Earth asteroids

Planetary defense efforts, formalized after the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, aim to catalog and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) capable of causing significant damage, with mandates ...
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Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid

- Smash a spacecraft into it - Only one planetary defence strategy has been tried out on an actual asteroid. In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft ...