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A group of amateur astronomer captured a NASA crash
NASA’s DART mission last year deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defence. Last year, images were taken as DART approached Dimorphos, an asteroid covered in boulders. “It means that we can quickly design a mission to deflect an asteroid if there’s a threat, and we know that this has…
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A asteroid lost 1 million kilograms after a collision with DART
NASA’s asteroid impact mission DART has calculated that the transfer of momentum when it hit Dimorphos was 3.6 times greater than if the asteroid had absorbed the spacecraft and no material was blasted from the surface. The impact caused it to move more than the spacecraft could, researchers said. The DART spacecraft crashed into the…
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The science of smashing a space craft into a asteroid
NASA’s DART mission team has shared a picture of asteroid Dimorphos after it crashed into the Earth on January 10. The DART team said the transfer of momentum from Dimorphos’ surface to the spacecraft was 3.6 times greater if the asteroid had absorbed the spacecraft and no material was blasted from it. DART was launched…