#NASA’s first planetary defense mission target gets a new name
“#NASA’s first planetary defense mission target gets a new name” Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Nearly two decades ago, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered to have a moon and the binary system was given the…