An asteroid called Didymos recently had a close encounter with a spacecraft.
Researchers made the discovery soon after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft brought Didymos into the spotlight.
The explosive visit also gave scientists an up-close peek at both asteroids, and DART will be followed by a thorough investigation of the binary asteroid system by the European Space Agency’s Hera mission.
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Last September, NASA crashed the refrigerator-sized DART spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos at a speed of some 13,000 mph (21,000 km/h). The impact not only successfully changed the trajectory of Dimorphos, which orbits a companion asteroid named Didymos.
In the days following the impact, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope trained its eye on Dimorphos’ ejecta cloud to help astronomers track hour-by-hour changes in the more than 1,000 tons of dust and rock that were blasted from the asteroid.
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“Asteroid City” is set in the 1950s in a fictional American desert town. At a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention, which is designed to unite students and parents in scholarly competition, chaos ensues as world-changing events take place.
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