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NASA’s Asteroid-Bashing Mission May Have Knocked a Moon Off its Orbit

The mission aimed to test whether a spacecraft could alter the course of an asteroid.

An image of Dimorphos before impact, taken when the spacecraft was about seven miles from the asteroid and two seconds before impact.
An image of Dimorphos before impact, taken when the spacecraft was about seven miles from the asteroid and two seconds before impact. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL