'Earthlings should sleep better': NASA successfully crashes DART into asteroid
The DART team said no adjustments were needed on the mission and it went down"straight down the middle of what our expectations were."
"Some things will likely come out in even days, maybe weeks," mission systems engineer Elena Adams told reporters following the impact. "But I would say for the quantitative full answer, a couple of months." But changing an asteroid's orbit by just 1% could be enough if a destructive one were headed towards Earth, NASA says. Currently, there are nearly 30,000 near-Earth objects in our solar system,, meaning they come within 120.8 million miles of our planet. Over 10,000 of near-Earth objects them around the same size as Dimorphos.
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