NASA’s DART mission showed how a kinetic impact can be deployed to enhance the momentum change of a near-Earth asteroid while giving us the first up-close view of a binary asteroid system.
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Campo Bagatin, A. DART’s asteroid bullseye. Nat. Geosci. 16, 390–391 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01179-2
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