Asteroid Occultations

DART, NASA and asteroid Dimorphos

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks' orbit around the sun

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.

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NASA confirms its DART mission changed an asteroid’s orbit, offering hope for this planetary defense technique

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NASA’s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System’s Orbit Around the Sun

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New observations show the aftermath of a spacecraft intentionally colliding with an asteroid

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Nasa 'asteroid crash' helps plan to keep Earth safe

Nasa has been reporting on its first Earth defence mission - when they crashed a spaceship into a meteor to see if they could bash it away, if they needed to.

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NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests ...

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