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NASA’s DART probe shifted the orbits of two asteroids, not just one

Mar 06, 2026
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NASA slammed a vending-machine-sized probe into an asteroid in 2022, changing its orbit. That was the plan. The entire binary system’s path around the Sun also moved.

DART slammed into Dimorphos — a 160-meter-wide moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos — at over 22,000 km/h on September 26, 2022, shavi…

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