NASA’s DART mission ejected boulders from asteroid Dimorphos, offering new insight into asteroid collision outcomes | – The Times of India

NASA’s DART mission ejected boulders from asteroid Dimorphos, offering new insight into asteroid collision outcomes | – The Times of India

NASA’s ambitious Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was designed to prove that humanity could redirect a potentially hazardous asteroid using sheer kinetic force. Launched toward the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos, DART intentionally collided with Dimorphos on September 26, 2022. The goal is to shift its orbit as a…

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Scientists find new formula that could help detect killer asteroids – Times of India

Scientists find new formula that could help detect killer asteroids – Times of India

This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. Scientists in Spain may have taken a giant leap in safeguarding Earth from potential asteroid collisions. A study published in the ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’ highlights a new formula that uses the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint the precise locations of…

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