LLNL-Led Paper Reveals Spacecraft Geometry Effects on Impact Simulations for NASA's DART Mission
September 21, 2022
September 21, 2022
LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 21 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release:
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will crash into asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, executing the first asteroid deflection test that has been years in the planning.
Dimorphos, at 150 meters across, is the "moonlet" of a binary asteroid system, orbiting the larger companion asteroi . . .
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will crash into asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, executing the first asteroid deflection test that has been years in the planning.
Dimorphos, at 150 meters across, is the "moonlet" of a binary asteroid system, orbiting the larger companion asteroi . . .