Planetary defense with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and prospects

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, and this kinetic impact changed Dimorphos’ orbit around its binary companion Didymos. This first planetary defense test explored technological readiness for this method of aste...

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Autores principales: Rivkin, Andrew S., Cheng, Andrew F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9978022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36859367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35561-2
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spelling pubmed-99780222023-03-03 Planetary defense with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and prospects Rivkin, Andrew S. Cheng, Andrew F. Nat Commun Comment NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, and this kinetic impact changed Dimorphos’ orbit around its binary companion Didymos. This first planetary defense test explored technological readiness for this method of asteroid deflection. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9978022/ /pubmed/36859367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35561-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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