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How DART Scientists Know the Experiment to Shove an Asteroid Actually Worked

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Earlier this week, NASA announced that its DART spacecraft successfully moved an asteroid by a few dozen feet. This raises a valid question: How the heck did scientists figure this out, given that Dimorphos is nearly 7 million miles away? Needless to say, this task required some clever astronomy and a veritable…

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Source: gizmodo.com