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NASA's Dart Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
(
www.nasa.gov
)
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mpweiher
3 hours ago
1 comment
jjk166
2 hours ago
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.
bdbdbdb
2 hours ago
What about a solar sail?