NASA's Dart Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
mpweiher
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March 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
jjk166
For reference, if Didymos were on a collision course with earth, we'd need to our interceptor to hit it about 16,000 years prior to impact to get it to miss Earth, or more realistically a substantially larger kinetic impactor/ swarm of impactors.