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Can NASA change the course of an Asteroid?
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DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact.
DART’s Mission Objectives:
Demonstrate a kinetic impact with Dimorphos.
Change the binary orbital period of Dimorphos.
Use ground-based telescope observations to measure Dimorphos’ period change before and after impact.
Measure the effects of the impact and resulting ejecta on Dimorphos.(NASA)
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JET PROPULSION LABORATORY