Tag Archives: Deflecting

Giant space ‘boulders’ unleashed by NASA’s DART mission aren’t behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids  Live Science NASA’s asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space  Space Deflecting Asteroids Isn’t Simple According to New Data from DART  Universe Today “Something Unknown Is At Work Here”: Unexpected Results From NASA Mission To Deflect Asteroid  IFLScience DART’s …

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to determine whether humanity could theoretically save itself from a catastrophic asteroid impact. DART collided with Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos, on September …