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    significantly deformed Dimorphos into an ellipsoidal shape or may have sent it into a chaotically tumbling rotation. If Dimorphos was in a tumbling rotation...
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    shortened Dimorphos' orbit by 32 minutes, greatly in excess of the pre-defined success threshold of 73 seconds. DART's success in deflecting Dimorphos was due...
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    B comes from the word "Dimorphos", Greek for "having two forms". The meaning of the name represents how the form of Dimorphos's orbit will change after...
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    with its satellite Dimorphos at 23:16 UTC at a relative speed of about 6.6 km/s. The impact must change the orbital period of Dimorphos around Didymos, which...
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    spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of the non-threatening asteroid Dimorphos by crashing into it. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU)...
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    analysis of the Didymos asteroid binary system after DART's impact on Dimorphos. It communicates directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta...
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    and deformation of Dimorphos's shape, leaving an impact crater several tens of meters in diameter. The impact has likely sent Dimorphos into a chaotically...
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  • of Dimorphos. It will operate for 3–6 months near the asteroid. At the end of its mission, it will attempt a landing on the surface of Dimorphos to obtain...
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    government since 1945. September 26 NASA's DART crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos in a first test of potential planetary defense. The Nord Stream pipeline...
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    Planetary Defense Conference. In 2022, NASA spacecraft DART impacted Dimorphos, reducing the minor-planet moon's orbital period by 32 minutes. This mission...
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    SpaceX Falcon 9 from California on a trajectory designed to impact the Dimorphos asteroid. Scientists were seeking to determine whether an impact could...
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    Retrieved December 7, 2023. "Nasa Dart asteroid spacecraft: Mission to smack Dimorphos space rock launches". BBC News. November 24, 2021. Archived from the original...
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    called Dimorphos with the help of the DART spacecraft. Following a ten-month journey to the Didymos system, the impactor collided with Dimorphos on 26...
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    Binary near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos and its moon Dimorphos imaged by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft...
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    Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully made contact with Dimorphos, in a test operated by NASA to test potential planetary defense to near-Earth...
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    photographed and visited by a spacecraft prior to the DART mission to Dimorphos in 2022. Itokawa was discovered on 26 September 1998 by astronomers with...
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  • Redirection Test demonstrates capabilities on asteroid (65803) Didymos I Dimorphos. September 27 – 30: Hurricane Ian impacts Cuba and the US, causing catastrophic...
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  • Northeast of Adiri Huygens heat shield Unknown Huygens parachute Unknown Dimorphos Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor 570 kg (1,260 lb) NASA/JHUAPL...
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  • been used for: 162173 Ryugu § Saxa 101955 Bennu § IAU named features Dimorphos § Surface Saxum is the Latin word for a rock. The feature name was introduced...
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    co-orbital with Venus 2011 UW158 436724 110±20 Apollo asteroid type S Dimorphos Didymos I 85±15 asteroid moon of 65803 Didymos 2017 BQ6 78 Apollo asteroid...
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    reached the system of 65803 Didymos and impacted the Apollo asteroid's moon Dimorphos, in a test of a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects...
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  • the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), when a probe crashed into Dimorphos to test lithobraking as a method of planetary defense. Successful lithobraking...
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    and 17 between 1971 and 1972. In 2022, the DART impactor crashed into Dimorphos, the minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos, with the explicit purpose...
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  • Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was intentionally collided with Dimorphos, a moon of the asteroid 65803 Didymos on 26 September 2022. Satellite...
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    The Moon 216,092 35,729 Ryugu 18.5 ? Saturn 2,150 2,289.75 Tempel 1 370 2.5 Titan 319 372 Venus 22,642 201,256 Dimorphos 570 ? Total 254,024 613,273+...
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  • spacecraft. First spacecraft to make contact with an asteroid moon (impact on Dimorphos). USA (NASA) DART 23 August 2023 First landing at the lunar south polar...
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  • Test (DART), another asteroid-deflecting mission which collided with Dimorphos "2015 XF261". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 23 July 2024. "Object/Trajectory...
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    492 September 11, 1999 DART/LICIACube 2022 1.2 3.2 Impactor/flyby Moon Dimorphos impacted by DART spacecraft, flown by LICIACube 152830 Dinkinesh 0.790...
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    DART NASA 26 September 2022 flyby/impactor success kinetic impactor of Dimorphos to test planetary defense 2021-110A     LICIACube ASI 26 September 2022...
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  • collected sample from surface. Sample returned to Earth on 24 September 2023 Dimorphos Double Asteroid Redirection Test USA 26 September 2022 Intentional hard...
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