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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided on Sept. 26 at about 14,000 miles per hour (22,530 kph) into Dimorphos, an asteroid about 490 feet (150 meters) in diameter, roughly 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth.
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NASA has confirmed that the DART mission was successful in altering the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around the larger asteroid Didymos. Here is what comes next for the mission.
October 12, 2022 10:05 am
DART's celestial target was an egg-shaped asteroid named Dimorphos, roughly the size of a football stadium.
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After the DART crash, the asteroid Dimorphos has a tail of debris that is over 10,000 kilometres long, as can be seen in this image captured by the SOAR Telescope.
September 28, 2022 1:03 pm
The collision was a technology demonstration, and an experiment to assess the capabilities to do such maneouvers in future should a need arise.




