Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Author(s): John van Vliet Limax7 N3cronium

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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA/APL space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). As part of this test, it will intentionally crash on a small moon orbiting the asteroid Didymos (called Dimorphos) on 2022-Sept-26

NOTES:

  • Requires the 65803 Didymos addon installed for this addon to fully work
  • The simulated collision of DART onto Dimorphos occurs on 2022-Sept-26, 23:14:17 UTC

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