NASA defense test kicked asteroid off course — and changed its orbit around the sun

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it — a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks. The experiment pushed the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos into a smaller, faster route around its sibling Didymos — and according to new research out […] The post NASA defense test kicked asteroid off course — and changed its orbit around the sun appeared first on Digital Journal.