NASA's DART impact alters Dimorphos' shape and orbit significantly
A recent study reveals that NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, which collided with the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022, permanently altered both its shape and its orbit. The impact deformed Dimorphos, creating a large crater and reshaping it to the extent that it disrupted the moon's natural evolutionary trajectory. Researchers now believe that Dimorphos might start "tumb