Asteroid Didymos (bottom left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
A new study of the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission shows the Sept. 26, 2022, impact altered the shape and course of its target, the 560-ft.-wide (170-m) Dimorphos, a moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. DART was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base...
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