DART IMPACT 'SUCCESS' -First Spacecraft to impact on an Asteroid - NOT a threat to Earth -26.09.2022
5DART IMPACT 'SUCCESS' - First Spacecraft to impact on an Asteroid - NOT a threat to Earth - 26.09.2022
Made Public: 27.09.2022
DART (NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Target: Dimorphos (Asteroid)
Information:
Dimorphos (Asteroid) is NOT a threat to Earth (not before the impact .. and also not after the impact)
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UPDATE: Oct 11, 2022 (10/11/2022)
NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space
https://dart.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/article.php?id=20221011
NASA DART Imagery Shows Changed Orbit of Target Asteroid
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. Images such as the below helped scientists understand the orbit change resulting from DART’s impact (See link below - If you like)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid
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Update on DART Mission to Asteroid Dimorphos (NASA News Conference)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhzn0U2m5wQ
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(Watch NASA Reveal DART Changed the Orbit and Location of Asteroid Dimorphos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsLp3Mzllw)
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After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target Dimorphos on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space. During the spacecraft’s final moments before impact, its Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO) imager took four images capturing its terminal approach as Dimorphos increasingly fills the field of view.
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Original Video can be found here:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-s-final-images-prior-to-impact
DART's Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos (Official NASA Broadcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RA8Tfa6Sck
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DART Mission
https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/index.php
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Picture of Dimorphos
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/all_dimorphos_dart_0401930040_12262_01_raw_0.png
Picture of Dimorphos (Part; Close UP)
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/penultimate_dart_0401930049_43695_0.png