![]() ![]() That means that if such an asteroid were ever to threaten Earth, we’d have an idea of how to deflect it - as long as it was spotted in time as several years of preparation are required, and provided it was on a similar scale of size to Dimorphos, which is around half a mile across. The agency shared in an update that the impact altered the orbit of Dimorphos by 33 minutes, showing that this method can be effective at changing an asteroid’s trajectory. ![]() More analysis of the data from the impact has been reported by NASA. It’s going to take some time to figure out.” “We’ve never witnessed an object collide with an asteroid in a binary asteroid system before in real time, and it’s really surprising. “The DART impact happened in a binary asteroid system,” said lead author of a study on the ejecta, Jian-Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute, in a statement. This view shows how the effects of the impact on the asteroid are dependent on it being a part of a binary system: two asteroids orbiting each other. SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li (PSI) IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Hubble Space Telescope had a ringside view of the space demolition derby. These three panels capture the breakup of the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by NASA’s 1,200-pound Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft on September 26, 2022. Hubble image shows a lonely star glowing over an irregular background galaxy Hubble watches an extreme exoplanet being stripped by its star NASA hears Voyager ‘heartbeat’ as it tries to reconnect with spacecraft ![]()
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