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Nasa's Asteroid-smashing Dart Spacecraft Hit So Hard, It Changed Its Target Space Rocks' Orbit Around the Sun
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, launched by NASA in 2021, has successfully completed its mission to alter the orbit of a small asteroid. On September 26, 2022, the spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos. The collision wa...
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The Anti-tail of 3i/atlas Wobbled Before Perihelion
Avi Loeb, a renowned astronomer and professor at Harvard University, has made a groundbreaking discovery regarding the asteroid 3I/ATLAS. In a recent article published on Medium, Loeb revealed that the asteroid's tail wobbled before its perihelion, a previously unknown phenomenon. The Discovery and ...