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- 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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