{"id":233300,"date":"2026-03-14T05:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/nasas-dart-impact-actually-changed-an-asteroid-systems-orbit-around-the-sun"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:21:26","slug":"nasas-dart-impact-actually-changed-an-asteroid-systems-orbit-around-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/nasas-dart-impact-actually-changed-an-asteroid-systems-orbit-around-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System\u2019s Orbit Around the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-dart-impact-actually-changed-an-asteroid-systems-orbit-around-the-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA\u2019s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the motion of an asteroid system in space, demonstrating that a kinetic impactor could be a viable way t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA\u2019s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the motion of an asteroid system in space, demonstrating that a kinetic impactor could be a viable way t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}