{"id":20759,"date":"2022-09-26T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T02:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T00:32:10","slug":"nasa-crashes-dart-spacecraft-into-asteroid-dimorphos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2022\/09\/26\/nasa-crashes-dart-spacecraft-into-asteroid-dimorphos\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Crashes DART Spacecraft Into Asteroid Dimorphos"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Photo Credit: NASA\/JHUAPL<\/pre>\n<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; In another first, NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26th when the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world\u2019s first planetary defense technology demonstration, made impact after 10 months in space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impact of DART into the asteroid Dimorphos was confirmed at 7:14pm Eastern Time when the DART Mission Operations Center here at APL lost signal with the spacecraft,&#8221; said Ralph Semmel, Director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The moonlet Dimorphos is 530 feet in diameter and orbits a larger asteroid Didymos that is 2,560 feet.\u00a0 Neither poses a threat to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It is the agency&#8217;s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.<\/p>\n<p>The team will now use ground-based telescopes to confirm how the impact altered the asteroid\u2019s orbit.\u00a0 They expect to find it moved Dimorphos\u2019 orbit by about 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid when the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world\u2019s first planetary defense technology demonstration, made impact after 10 months in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,1364,1363,154],"class_list":["post-20759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-asteroid","tag-dart","tag-dimorphos","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/dart-last-image-before-impact.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30174,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions\/30174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}