On September 26th, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT.
At the heart of the work are no fewer than six Brown University DEEPS Alumni and one faculty member (class years are Ph.D.s):
- Olivier Barnouin, 1998;
- Megan Bruck Syal, 2014;
- R. Terik Daly, 2017;
- Carolyn Ernst, 2008;
- Angela Stickle, 2012;
- Jessica Sunshine, 1994;
- and Pete Schultz, Professor Emeritus/Professor (Research)
Read NASA's News Release for the full DART success story.
