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September 27, 2022 12:30 am GMT

Impact! The DART mission, humanity's first attempt at redirecting an asteroid, finds its target

At 7:14 p.m. ET, 9/26/22, NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission made contact with the asteroid Dimorphos. This is humanity's first attempt at redirecting a celestial body as a strategy for planetary defense.

Illustration showing the asteroid Dimporhos orbiting Didymos before impact and the intended new orbit post-impact.
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Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/09/26/impact-the-dart-mission-humanitys-first-attempt-at-redirecting-an-asteroid-finds-its-target.html

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