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Even Clyde Tombaugh, the dogged observer who discovered Pluto, got into the game, spending four years in the 1950s searching fruitlessly for an undiscovered moonlet.
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Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
Many had already deemed the mission successful after NASA shared footage of the DART spacecraft slamming into Dimorphos, a moonlet asteroid orbiting another larger asteroid.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Oct. 2022
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet orbiting the larger space rock Didymos, to see whether a spacecraft can change the motion of a celestial body in space.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
At various points before, during, or after the impact, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope observed DART’s target: the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
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Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
Many had already deemed the mission successful after NASA shared footage of the DART spacecraft slamming into Dimorphos, a moonlet asteroid orbiting another larger asteroid.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Oct. 2022
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet orbiting the larger space rock Didymos, to see whether a spacecraft can change the motion of a celestial body in space.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
At various points before, during, or after the impact, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope observed DART’s target: the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
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“Moonlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonlet. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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