A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around the sun also changed.

美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的“双小行星重定向测试（Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART）”任务的一项新研究表明，近地小行星系统比科学家们之前认为的更为活跃。研究发现，这些成对出现的小行星并非只是相互环绕，而是可以通过缓慢的撞击交换岩石和尘埃，从而在数百万年的时间里逐渐改变其表面。

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

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When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

It is the first man-made object to have shifted the orbit of a naturally occurring entity in space.

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