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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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    spacecraft, or DART, was launched in 2021 and intentionally impacted Dimorphos in September 2022, successfully altering its orbit by crashing into it...
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    its Dimorphos satellite at a relative speed of about 6.6 km/s. The impact must change the rotation (? orbital) period (11.9 hours) of Dimorphos around...
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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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    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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    Prior to Dimorphos Impact". NASA. 24 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022. "DART's Small Satellite Companion Tests Camera Prior to Dimorphos Impact"...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Binary near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos and its moon Dimorphos imaged by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft...
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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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    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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    September 26, 2022, the DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid's moon Dimorphos, in a test of a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects...
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    Didymos asteroid system, 65803 Didymos and Dimorphos Launched: 24 November 2021 Destination:65803 Didymos and Dimorphos (flyby) Arrival: 26 September 2022 Institution:...
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  • C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) C/2022 E3 (ZTF) PSP-001 Space exploration DART (Dimorphos impact; September 2022)  Outer space portal Category:2021 in outer space...
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  • Masatoshi; et al. (April 2023). "Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos". Nature. 616 (7957): 452–456. arXiv:2303.01700. Bibcode:2023Natur.616...
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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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  • spacecraft. First spacecraft to make contact with an asteroid moon (impact on Dimorphos). USA (NASA, SpaceX) DART 23 August 2023 First landing at the lunar south...
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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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    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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  • 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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    The Moon 207,891 34,372 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 245,823 611,816+...
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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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    Dart Impact at Dimorphos...
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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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  • 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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    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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