Planetary Defense Coordination Office

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Asteroids
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science Division
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be honored with the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement.
Posted November 7, 2023
Science Mission Directorate
Asteroids
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
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.
Posted October 17, 2023
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Asteroids
Didymos & Dimorphos
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
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.
Posted October 16, 2023
General
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
September 2023 Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about comets and asteroids that could pose an impact hazard with Earth. Here is the what we’ve found for September. 
Posted September 29, 2023
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