For the first time, scientists have deliberately changed the course of a celestial body. Could it help save Earth from future catastrophic impacts? It marked “humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object”. New analysis has now examined the effect of the mission on the larger asteroid, as well as the asteroid moonlet. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-... [2535 chars]
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