QUICK FACTS Milestone: DART rocket crashes into asteroid moonlet Dimorphos Date: Sept. 26, 2022 at 7:14 p.m. EDT Where: 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth Who: NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory scientists On Sept. 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT, NASA smashed a pint-sized spacecraft into an asteroid — and changed the course of both …
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