NASA Confirms DART Mission was the First Human-Made Object to Alter an Asteroid’s Orbit

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NASA Confirms DART Mission was the First Human-Made Object to Alter an Asteroid’s Orbit

Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have confirmed that when the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally collided with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2020, the collision permanently altered the object’s orbit around the sun.

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