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NASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbital path of asteroid Didymos around the Sun by impacting its moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, marking the first human-made change to a celestial body's heliocentric orbit and validating kinetic impact as a planetary defense technique.

NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) Didymos Dimorphos LICIACube Italian Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope Thomas Statler Johns Hopkins APL
nasa.gov · mpweiher · 2 days ago · details · hn