NASA's DART probe shifted the orbits of two asteroids, not just one

NASA slammed a vending-machine-sized probe into an asteroid in 2022, changing its orbit. That was the plan. The entire binary system's path around the Sun also moved. DART slammed into Dimorphos — a 160-meter-wide moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos — at over 22,000 km/h on September 26, 2022, shaving 33 minutes off its orbit. — Read the rest The post NASA's DART probe shifted the orbits of two asteroids, not just one appeared first on Boing Boing.