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DART Mission NASA

October 9 , 2022 770 days 931 0
  • NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
  • This world’s first planetary Defense technology demonstration successfully impacted its asteroid target.
  • DART targeted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a small body just 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter.
  • It orbits a larger, 2,560-foot (780-meter) asteroid called Didymos.
  • Neither asteroid poses a threat to Earth.

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