
NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks’ orbit around the sun
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/asteroid-comet-missions/nasas-asteroid-smashing-spacecraft-managed-to-alter-target-space-rocks-orbit-around-the-sun

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Well, that was the whole point of the “Double Asteroid Redirection Test.” I’m glad it was a success. It gives us a better chance of avoiding an extinction event from that venue.
Im not sure why confirming conservation of momentum is such news?
Hope they didn’t push its path to eventually hit us.
I mean, wasn’t that the goal?