2023 March 09 - DART vs Dimorphos
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 09/03/2023

In today's image, we see the asteroid known as Dimorphos just a few seconds before the DART craft impacted into its surface. This was an experiment to see how an asteroid orbit could be changed by an impact as a potential planetary defense measure in the future. It was found that the orbit of Dimorphos was decreased by about half of an hour from its original 12 hour orbit. 

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