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NASA DART Team Confirms Slamming Spacecraft Into Asteroids Can Deflect Them
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19/11/2024
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here.
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We're embarking on a new era of humankind.
00:11
Didymos and Dimorphos make a great target.
00:15
We needed an asteroid with a moon that you can see from ground-based telescopes around the world.
00:21
We're doing this mission to prove that we can deflect an asteroid.
00:26
Five, four, three, two, one.
00:34
And liftoff of the Falcon 9 at dark on NASA's first planetary defense test to intentionally crash into an asteroid.
00:46
Even if we do everything right, our sensors work well, our spacecraft is doing well, even then we might still miss.
00:54
Four, three, two, one.
01:04
For the first time ever, humanity has changed the orbit of a planetary object.
01:11
NASA confirms that DART successfully changed the targeted asteroid's trajectory.
01:24
Using the ground-based telescopes around the world to watch the system and see how it's affected by this impact event.
01:31
This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity.
01:41
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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