Just four months ago, towards the end of September 2022, a NASA DART successfully changed the orbit of Dimorphos, the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos.

Named after the Greek for “twin”, Didymos is about a half-mile across and has a smaller companion orbiting it... Dimorphos (Greek for “two forms”), approximately 20 metres across.

The kinetic impact from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test was allegedly the first instance of a celestial object being deflected from its original trajectory by a projectile launched from the Earth... FULL STORY