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Events on Monday 26 September 2022 2
2022DART spacecraft deliberately strikes an asteroidThe first test of planetary defence by impactNASA's DART spacecraft struck the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on 26 September 2022, successfully altering its orbit in the first demonstration that a threatening asteroid could be deflected.
2022Nord Stream pipelines sabotagedExplosions rupture the Baltic gas linkA series of underwater explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea on 26 September 2022, releasing vast quantities of methane and severing a major Russian gas route to Europe.