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NASA says DART mission succeeded in altering asteroid's trajectory

Oct 11 (Reuters) - The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit -- the first time humanity has altered the ...
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NASA Goddard helps ensure asteroid deflector hits target, predicts and will observe impact results

Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across carries enough energy to cause widespread damage around the ...
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NASA’s Goddard Team Works To Ensure DART Asteroid Deflector Saves Earth From Impact Events

NASA recently launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection using a kinetic impactor. Teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are ...
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Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defense

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...