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NASA crashed a spacecraft into a space rock, accelerating two asteroids’ orbit around the sun. The DART mission marks the first time a human-crafted object has altered the path of a celestial body. (www.cnn.com)

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They were able to use the changes in orbit to calculate the densities of the asteroids, so maybe it's the first time they were able to alter it enough that the changes can be used to calculate that sort of thing.