This week in Nature: Crash course – How impact of DART spacecraft altered orbit of asteroid's moon. Browse the full issue here:
Although currently there is no known threat to Earth from asteroids, strategies to protect the planet from a collision are being explored.
On 26 September 2022, NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory successfully tested one such approach: the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft was deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, a moon orbiting the small asteroid Didymos, resulting in a change in the moon’s orbit. In this week’s issue, five papers explore the test and the effects of the collision.
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