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NASA's asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought
There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...
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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 ...
NASA's DART mission ejected boulders from asteroid Dimorphos, offering new insight into asteroid collision outcomes
NASA's DART mission successfully altered Dimorphos' orbit, but the impact unleashed over 100 boulders, significantly boosting ...
Crashing into an asteroid creates chaotic space boulders
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
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Deflecting asteroids isn't as easy as scientists previously thought
When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...
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DART’s Chaotic Ejecta and the New Science of Asteroid Deflection Dynamics
How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...
Massive boulders ejected during DART mission may complicate future asteroid deflection efforts
When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...
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“Something Unknown Is at Work” Behind NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission—and Astronomers Are Worried
Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected ...
NASA's Dart probe has unexpectedly knocked massive chunks out of asteroids
When NASA steered its Dart probe into an asteroid, it was supposed to determine how much it could be deflected. The ...
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Why deflecting asteroids may become more difficult in the future
NASA's DART spacecraft unintentionally triggered a massive boulder ejection upon impacting asteroid moon Dimorphos, ...
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NASA collision with asteroid Dimorphos changed both its trajectory and ...
Dimorphos and Didymos do not pose an actual threat to Earth. The spacecraft collided on Sept. 26, 2022, at about 14,000 miles per hour into Dimorphos, an asteroid that was about 560 feet wide, ...
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NASA’s DART collision may result in the first human-made meteor shower | CNN
Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the ...