After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk. When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) deliberately smashed into a 560-foot-wide (170-meter-wide) asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022, it made its mark in more ways than one. The demonstration showed […]
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DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), Asteroids, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Modeling, Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA), Planetary Defense, Planetary Defense Coordination Office
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March 19, 2024
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