In a huge step forward for planetarydefense technology, NASA has confirmed that last month's DART test mission successfully changed the orbit of an asteroid.
In a historic announcement on Tuesday, the space agency confirmed that for the first time, humanity has succeeded in changing the orbit of a planetary body, suggesting we now have a way to protect ourselves against hazardous asteroids spotted coming our way.
For the first time ever, humans changed the motion of a celestial object. More details: https://t.co/aQj8N7fnuV pic.twitter.com/NLR6AqEcaO NASA and its international partners achieved the feat in a test mission last month that involved smashing the refrigerator-sized DART spacecraft into the 525-feet-wide Dimorphos asteroid at 14,000 mph to see if the force of the impact would alter the course of the harmless space rock.
In news that has the potential to save humanity from the kind of cataclysmic impact that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, the investigation team said it was able to confirm that the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes, shortening the 11 hour and 55-minute orbit to 11 hours and 23 minutes. This measurement, it said, has a margin of uncertainty of around plus or minus 2 minutes.
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