24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
...’s one-way trip is to the Didymos asteroid system, which comprises a pair of asteroids. DART’s target is the moonlet, Dimorphos, which is approximately 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter. The moonlet orbits Didymos, which is approximately 780 metres...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... Originally dubbed Didymos B and/or Didymoon and subsequently changed to Dimorphos, the moonlet was found to be about 160 metres (525...in 2026 and measure for example, the precise mass of Dimorphos, its makeup and its internal structure, as well as the...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
...’s DART mission reaches its target – a binary asteroid system comprised of Didymos and its small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos – in late 2022. However, this method needs time to be implemented, so if a large asteroid was detected with just a couple...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
... orbit of an asteroid. The spacecraft successfully crashed into the smaller moonlet of a binary asteroid system (Didymos and Dimorphos) about seven million miles from Earth in September last year at a speed of about 15,000 mph and succeeded...
