{"id":123417,"date":"2022-10-14T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=123417"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:01:01","slug":"nasas-dart-mission-successfully-changed-the-course-of-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nasas-dart-mission-successfully-changed-the-course-of-an-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NASA\u2019s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid:<\/strong> NASA\u00a0has announced that\u00a0Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has successfully\u00a0managed to\u00a0change the motion of the asteroid &#8216;Dimorphos&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the&nbsp;first demonstration of the \u201ckinetic impactor\u201d method&nbsp;of asteroid mitigation. It was&nbsp;launched in November 2021&nbsp;and&nbsp;crashed into the space rock on September 26, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior, it took&nbsp;Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its asteroid Didymos, now it changed the moonlet asteroid\u2019s orbit by 32 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid: NASA\u00a0has announced that\u00a0Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has successfully\u00a0managed to\u00a0change the motion of the asteroid &#8216;Dimorphos&#8217;. October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz This is the&nbsp;first demonstration of the \u201ckinetic impactor\u201d method&nbsp;of asteroid mitigation. It was&nbsp;launched in November 2021&nbsp;and&nbsp;crashed into the space rock on September 26, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":123418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4970],"tags":[123,68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-123417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2022","tag-nasa","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123419,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417\/revisions\/123419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123417"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=123417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}