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Chinese scientists call for focus on asteroid missions China should intensify its asteroid research and focus on sample ...
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NASA's DART mission made history on September 26, 2022, by intentionally colliding with the asteroid Dimorphos.
She says she was a child of the Apollo Moon Mission era, a reader of astronomy magazines, and science fiction. One of her ...
The DART mission has proven that we can substantially affect potentially hazardous asteroids. The shape of the asteroid ...
NASA chose Dimorphos (above) as the target because it does not coast through space alone. This 560-foot (170-meter) space ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft showed that it is possible to change the trajectory of a celestial object, ...
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Previously, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to complete one loop around Didymos and it had a well-defined, circular ...