The Register-Herald

WV lawmakers give schools flexibility to shorten their school calendar length

CHARLESTON — West Virginia public schools would have more flexibility to change the length of the school year, according to a bill that is nearing the governor’s desk for consideration.

NASA craft that crashed into asteroid also altered orbit of 2nd space rock

NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.
IEEE

Scribble-Guided Structural Regression Fusion for Multimodal Remote Sensing Change Detection

Abstract: Accurate change detection (CD) in multitemporal multimodal remote sensing images is crucial for numerous applications. However, existing unsupervised CD methods often face challenges in ...

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...
The Debrief

NASA Confirms DART Mission was the First Human-Made Object to Alter an Asteroid’s Orbit

NASA says an impact from its DART spacecraft changed the orbit of an asteroid for the first time ever, offering hope for planetary defense.

In a first, NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun—by accident

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.