SOAR Telescope Catches Dimorphos’s Expanding Comet-like Tail After DART Impact The SOAR Telescope in Chile imaged the more than 10,000 kilometers long trail of debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos two days after the asteroid was impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft. NASA’s Double Asteroid
test in which a spacecraft attempted to modify the orbit of an asteroid through kinetic impact.
An artist’s representation of NASA’s DART spacecraft flying toward the twin asteroids, Didymos and Dimorphos. The larger asteroid, Didymos, was discovered by the University of Arizona’s Spacewatch in 1996. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory “Now begins the next phase of work for the DART team as they analyze their data and observations by our team and other observers around the world who shared in studying this exciting event,” said Knight. We plan to use SOAR to monitor the ejecta in the coming weeks and months. The combination of SOAR and AEONThese observations will allow researchers to gain knowledge about the nature of the surface of Dimorphos.
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