A new simulation shows that when the DART mission hits the target asteroid, it could send it spinning and wobbling in a dramatic way.The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, so when an asteroid headed toward Earth with their name on it 65 million years ago, they had no warning and no way to defend themselves. We know how that turned out.<br /><br />Humans are, understandably, keen to avoid the same fate. Later this year, NASA will launch a mission to practice how we might deflect a future Earthbound asteroid. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is targeted to launch as soon as November 24 (or as late as February 2022) and will take a year to reach its target: Dimorphos, a stadium-size asteroid that is orbiting a much larger asteroid called Didymos.<br /><br />NASA,<br />ASTROID ,<br />SPACE ,<br />SPACE SCIENCE ,<br />NASA RESEARCH ,<br />
