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NASA Tried To Knock an Asteroid Off Course—And Succeeded Wildly Beyond Expectations

Por: Time Science October 12, 2022

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The mission managers at to send a refrigerator-sized spacecraft 7 million miles (11 million km) into space and punch an asteroid in the nose. And we should all be very glad they did, because today the Earth feels a little bit safer than it did yesterday. The spacecraft, known as (for Double Asteroid Redirection Test), was launched last November, and its sole job was to fly out to the small, 160 m (525 ft.) asteroid Dimorphos, and crash into it... + full article



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