Gravity Assist: How to Move an Asteroid, with Nancy Chabot

Published: Nov. 19, 2021, 1:19 p.m.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission, or DART, will deliberately impact a small asteroid called Dimorphos to deflect its orbit around a bigger object, Didymos. Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has the details.