US Gears-Up For ‘Interplanetary Defense’ Test! NASA’s DART Mission To Strike Asteroid Dimorphos In September - EurAsian Times

A new study simulating the potential impact of NASA’s DART mission colliding with the asteroid Dimorphos Shows the spacecraft’s impact on its target could be far more severe than previously thought.

A NASA spacecraft is scheduled to hit an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in September this year as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the space agency’s first mission to test… [+7436 chars]

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