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356 A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/07/2026 19:16 EDT

A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit

NASA heralded a new study published Friday documenting a first for humanity — "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun."

It was 2022's DART mission where NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the experiment "could have implications for protecting Earth from future asteroid strikes," writes ScienceNews:

A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second... Within a month, resear

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