Asteroid mission MORE successful than the wildest NASA dreams
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DART mission was more successful than even NASA expected.
With its asteroid mission, NASA stepped boldly into an area that was never entered before by any human agency. Not just that, in a big triumph, this has also become the first time that humans have succeeded in changing the motion of a significant Solar System object. Yes, we are talking about NASA's asteroid mission known as DART. The spacecraft that hit the asteroid was roughly the size of a vending machine. The asteroid target was named Dimorphos. Effectively, the strike changed the orbit of Dimorphos around its bigger companion asteroid Didymos by around 32 minutes. The test on September 26 shows the potential to protect Earth from any possible Asteroid strike.On a good note, NASA says that the degree of deflection wa...