NASA’s DART Mission Sheds New Light on Target Binary Asteroid System

In studying data collected from NASAs DART Double Asteroid Redirection Testmission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft tointentionally collidewith the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, the missions science team has discovered new information on the origins of the target binary asteroid system and why the DART spacecraft was so effective in shifting Dimorphos orbit. In five recently . https://science.nasa.gov/m...
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