Submitted by Gari_305 t3_y1h8fh in Futurology
Bensemus t1_is7q8kl wrote
Reply to comment by Dewnami in NASA says DART mission succeeded in altering asteroid's trajectory by Gari_305
That's only because you don't understand it at all. Look into the mission properly.
DART smashed into a small asteroid that is orbiting a larger one which is orbiting the Sun. The smaller asteroid's orbit was shrunk from ~12h to ~11.5h. It's still gravitationally bound to the larger asteroid which is still gravitationally bound to the Sun. Nothing was really changed. There was never any danger in drastically altering this asteroids orbit and put it on a collision course with Earth.
Saying we altered the destiny of the universe is beyond egotistical.
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