{"id":773324,"date":"2023-11-15T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773324"},"modified":"2023-11-15T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:50:53","slug":"asteroid-hit-by-nasas-dart-spacecraft-is-behaving-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773324","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid hit by NASA&#8217;s DART spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Dimorphos as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope after colliding with NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/ESA\/STScI\/Hubble<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A high school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid hit by a NASA spacecraft, in a test run for saving Earth from a collision, is behaving unexpectedly. The find could have implications for future planetary defence missions.<\/p>\n<p>On 27 September 2022, NASA intentionally crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. The goal was to slow the space rock\u2019s nearly 12-hour orbit around a parent asteroid, called Didymos, and \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2391083-asteroid-hit-by-nasa-spacecraft-is-behaving-unexpectedly\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimorphos as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope after colliding with NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft NASA\/ESA\/STScI\/Hubble A high school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid hit by a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}