Dinkinesh (Amharic for "marvelous") was randomly selected as an engineering test for Lucy's terminal tracking system that allows the spacecraft to autonomously pinpoint an asteroid's location and keep ...
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An asteroid struck Mars 2.3 million years ago, throwing debris across a region of the planet equal to four times the length ...
NASA's DART mission made history on September 26, 2022, by intentionally colliding with the asteroid Dimorphos.
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Dubbed 2020 FU and 2024 EK3 by the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's ... as launch spacecraft to prevent any major impacts as part of the umbrella of the Asteroid Impact ...
The asteroid Dinkinesh (left) and its satellite as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL NASA’s Lucy probe ...
Utilizing its advanced ground and space-based observational tools, NASA has provided insights into an asteroid set to pass by Earth today, March 12, coming unusually close to our planet.