Background_Daikon992 t1_iqy5cox wrote
Reply to comment by Lorjack in After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission by EricFromOuterSpace
The one they impacted wasn't a near-earth asteroid, for that very reason.
Bensemus t1_iqzo165 wrote
Not really. The main reason they hit this asteroid was because it was a binary pair. This makes is way easier to measure the tiny change in orbit.
Background_Daikon992 t1_ir047ts wrote
Yes, and they picked a binary pair that didn't cross Earth's orbit.
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