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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DART spacecraft's asteroid impact informs new planetary defense strategy

The DART mission proved that hitting an asteroid with a spacecraft can shift its orbit. More importantly, the study showed that ejecta — the debris blasted away — can provide a bonus effect, ...
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Massive boulders ejected during DART mission complicate future asteroid deflection efforts

These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion ...
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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from which ...
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NASA's asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...
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NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Barnhart, University of Southern California (THE CONVERSATION) In a world first, ...