NASA’s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid

NASA’s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid: NASA has announced that Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has successfully managed to change the motion of the asteroid ‘Dimorphos’.

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This is the first demonstration of the “kinetic impactor” method of asteroid mitigation. It was launched in November 2021 and crashed into the space rock on September 26, 2022

Prior, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its asteroid Didymos, now it changed the moonlet asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes