#DARTMission Post impact Press briefing live
#DARTMission interesting tidbit. the Craft had a Ion thruster was a backup in case of a miss. It would have required a 8 day burn to try again.
#LICIACube Images of impact expected in 3 hours
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Roman Tkachenko did some extra processing and got some area of
Dimorphos that was in the shadow #DARTMission
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DART impact as seen by #LICIACube
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Credit : Roman Tkachenko for processing into video
@Kinnison Was the Misson successful? Did it change course?
@VelvetDuchess Going to take a few days/weeks/month for measurements. Ground based telescopes are measuring the light from it to detect a change in orbit
here is a good article on it
https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-impact-when-well-know
The results are in.
#NASAcrashed the #DARTMission into asteroid #Dimorphos. They altered its orbit by 4%.
Orig. orbit around central🌑 : 11hr 55mins
Models expected: a few-10 mins difference ⏰
Post impact 💥 : 11hr 23mins. A 32 min orbital change!
Images by #Hubble (10000km tail)