NASA confirmed it successfully changed the orbit of a small asteroid 7 million miles from Earth.
Tuesday it successfully changed the orbit of a small asteroid 7 million miles from Earth, two weeks after the agency rammed an uncrewed spacecraft into the asteroid to test whether NASA can redirect incoming space objects before they barrel toward Earth.
NASA has been monitoring the asteroid’s orbit using telescopes on Earth, following the refrigerator-size spacecraft’shad been to shorten Dimorphos’ orbit by 10 minutes, although a change of just 73 seconds would have been enough to successfully redirect it.Following the crash, agency officials said their focus now is on analyzing the effects of the collision, including how much of the asteroid was blown into space on impact.
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