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NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks' orbit around the sun

NASA's DART planetary defense mission appears to have altered its target asteroids' trajectory around the sun. In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission deliberately slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos. Now, scientists have confirmed that not only did DART alter Dimorphos' orbit around its bi... [4641 chars]

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