The US Aerospace Agency’s (NASA) Double Asteroid Orientation Test (DART) spacecraft successfully crashed into the asteroid, about 11 million kilometers from Earth, as planned.
NASA engineers calculated the change to be 73 seconds, but post-accident data revealed the change in orbit to be 25 times greater.
The DART mission was developed as a precautionary measure if there is a danger of a large asteroid hitting the Earth.
With rockets to be launched from Earth or from stations in space, dangerous meteorites will be hit and their trajectories will be changed.
