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"NASA’s DART mission – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first
real-world planetary defence mission.
In September 2022, the DART spacecraft smashed into the companion “moon” of a
small asteroid 11 million kilometres from Earth. One goal was to find out if we
can give such things a shove if one were headed our way.
By gathering lots of data on approach and after the impact, we would also get a
better idea of what we’d be in for if such an asteroid were to hit Earth.
Five new studies published in
Nature Communications today have used the
images sent back from DART and its travel buddy LICIACube to unravel the
origins of the Didymos-Dimorphos dual asteroid system. They’ve also put that
data in context for other asteroids out there."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
