Asteroid Dimorphos has 10,000 kilometre-long tail of debris after DART crash

Asteroid Dimorphos has 10,000 kilometre-long tail of debris after DART crash

Two days after the impact, astronomers at the Lowell Observatory and the US Naval Academy took this image of Dimorphos using the 4.1-metre Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope at the NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. It shows a vast dust trail that is pushed in one direction due to the Sun’s radiation pressure, […]

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NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test live: DART’s planned collision with Dimorphos

NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test live: DART’s planned collision with Dimorphos

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission Live Updates: NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft is scheduled to collide with the asteroid Dimorphos at approximately 7.14 PM EDT on September 26 (4.44 AM IST on September 27). The mission will be the first to test a “kinetic impactor” method of planetary defence, which involves changing […]

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NASA DART mission: Watch livestream of spacecraft crashing into asteroid

NASA DART mission: Watch livestream of spacecraft crashing into asteroid

NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft is scheduled to have its planned collision with the asteroid Dimorphos at approximately 7.14 PM EDT on September 26 (4.44 AM IST on September 27). DART will be the first mission that tests a method that could potentially be used to redirect asteroids that pose a threat to […]

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