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  • Asteroid NASA Hit In Diversion Mission Is Acting So Mysteriously, An Investigation Was Launched

    09/11/2023 5:56:49 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | September 08, 2023 10:45 AM ET | KAY SMYTHE
    An asteroid hit during NASA’s successful DART mission in Sept. 2022 is acting mysteriously, and it’s not clear why. Back in 2022, NASA tested their DART mission to see if we’re capable of altering the trajectory of an asteroid. To do so, NASA crashed a probe into the target, Dimorphos, and successfully changed its trajectory. Dimorphos’s orbit around the larger asteroid, Didymos, was shortened by 33 minutes within weeks of the impact. But then, something else started happening. High school teacher Jonathan Swift at California’s Thatcher School and his students used an observatory at the institution to keep track of...