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Planetary Defense

Wait for me, Dinky!

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Image of asteroid Dinkinesh captured by Lucy’s high-resolution camera, the L’LORRI instrument. The brightest star in the field of view is HD 34258, a 7.6 magnitude star in the constellation…

First Planetary Defense Mission was a Success

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Studies published in the Nature journal have revealed new details about the DART spacecraft’s successful impact. Observations of ejected debris and calculations of the asteroid Dimorphos’ orbital changes confirm that…

How the Chelyabinsk Blast Changed the Way Humanity Deals with Asteroid Threats

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This article was originally published on b612foundation.org on February 15, 2023. Written by: Stuart Clark On the ten-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk event, we asked esteemed science journalist Stuart Clark…

NASA’s DART Impact – The First Successful Asteroid Deflection Demonstration

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Courtesy of Western University’s (Canada) Rob Weryk According to NASA, its first demonstration of an asteroid deflection technique was successful. For the very first time in history, humanity managed to…

NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully hits asteroid Dimorphos

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Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. watch and cheer as the DART spacecraft is in its final moments before impact. NASA’s DART spacecraft…