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3-D modeled illustration depicts the DART mission, and shows a boxy spacecraft approaching a bulky meteor.
Determining an asteroid’s structure could improve the aim of asteroid-targeting missions like DART (seen here in an artist’s rendition), which recently redirected an asteroid.

Spotlight: Oct 19, 2022

Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure during a close encounter with Earth. “If you know the density distribution of the asteroid, you could hit it at just the right spot so it actually moves away,” says Jack Dinsmore ’22.

Oct 19, 2022

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Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL