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    NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
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    NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun

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    1. Fancy_Exchange_9821 on

      Easily one of the most important and effective missions NASA has ever done. Impressive as well.

    3. KSPReptile on

      Can’t wait for Hera to arrive in November and show us the aftermath of DART.

    4. WaitForItTheMongols on

      Just to make sure everyone is clear: DART impacted the moon of didymos. By slamming into that moon (called dimorphos), the orbit of the larger asteroid has been deflected. This was not the purpose of the mission but is a happy side effect.

    5. Plow_King on

      so i’m sure someone “did the math”, but we didn’t change it so it would more likely hit us…did we?

      /s

    7. LowProposal731 on

      Wasn’t their an article that mentioned an increased chance the debris created can fall on Mars in a couple thousand years and the smaller ones as soon as the 2030’s. Kinda sucks for future colonization considering the thin atmosphere of Mars, large boulders would probably reach the surface intact.