After nearly a year since its launch last November, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will make contact with the Dimorphos asteroid Monday evening. The spacecraft is expected to directly hit the double asteroid system to test whether it is possible to...
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New ‘digital tracking’ technique detects more than 150 new asteroids, measures distance
A new international collaborative study describes how an image stacking technique known as 'digital tracking' can be used to discover large numbers of new asteroids that are too difficult to detect using traditional methods. More computationally intensive than...