The Physics World 2022 Breakthrough of the Year goes to NASA and a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in the US for the first demonstration of “kinetic impact” by successfully changing the orbit of an asteroid. This was done using the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, which was launched in November 2021 and impacted its target asteroid in September 2022.
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