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NASA’s Planetary Defense Test Changed Binary Asteroid’s Orbit around the Sun


New measurements show that the DART impact in 2022 not only shortened the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos around its parent asteroid, Didymos, but also subtly shifted the entire binary system’s path around the Sun.

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