The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, Didymos, at about 14,000 miles per hour.
The boulders range in size from three feet to 22 feet across and are drifting away from the asteroid at about half a mile per hour.
NASA Asteroid Impact Mission Triggers Surprise Avalanche of Space Boulders : ScienceAlert
A new observation reveals the ongoing effect humanity had after intercepting a chunk of rock drifting around the Sun last year.
The new images will help an upcoming mission to the asteroid study the results of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), to help refine and better plan for such impacts in the future.
This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold - Scientific American
In the historic quest to bring samples from across the solar system back to Earth, the best mantra for success may be a simple, familiar phrase: “practice makes perfect.”
At least, that’s the feeling from recent dry runs of the grand finale of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, an acronym for the megamouthful Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. Launched in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S.
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