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DART

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the first full-scale planetary defense experiment.

Kepler elements Orbit basis, the same label the app shows on the selection card.

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Every aspect, with its origin

One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.

ObservedCatalogComputedReconstructedIllustrativeUndocumented
Orbit Computed

Two-body orbit from published elements

DART is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit around didymos at the simulation time (a = 25 km, e = 0.3, period 3 d). Shown from 2022-09-11 until 2022-09-26.

SourceBundled orbital elements
Epoch2022-09-11T00:00:00Z
MethodTwo-body propagation of the stored elements by the shared orbit service; no perturbations.
LimitA two-body orbit ignores perturbations, and the object catalog does not record which element table these values were copied from.
Physical data Undocumented

Bulk properties

DART: mass 6.100 × 10^2 kg. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.

SourceBundled object record
LimitThe object catalog does not record where these values came from; treat them as unverified until the record is completed.
Description Undocumented

Description and facts

The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.

SourceSpace Time editorial text
LimitBackground reading is linked under Further reading; it is not the source of the displayed numbers.

What is not measured

Nothing on this page is a reconstruction or a schematic; every record above is observed, catalogued or computed.

Not yet documented

  • Physical data: The object catalog does not record where these values came from; treat them as unverified until the record is completed.
  • Appearance: no record. Space Time does not claim a source for this aspect.
  • Description: Background reading is linked under Further reading; it is not the source of the displayed numbers.

Sources cited

  • Bundled orbital elements
  • Bundled object record
  • Space Time editorial text

Further reading

Wikipedia: DART (background only; not the source of the displayed numbers)

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