Gravity Assist

Gravity Assist: How to Move an Asteroid, with Nancy Chabot

11.19.2021 - By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Play

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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission, or DART, will deliberately impact a small asteroid called Dimorphos to deflect its orbit around a bigger object, Didymos. Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has the details.

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