Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
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After ’s mission slammed into in September 2022, determined the impact caused tons of rock to be ejected from the small asteroid’s surface. But more importantly, DART’s impact altered Dimorphos’ period, decreasing it by about 33 minutes.

universetoday.com/163089/dart-

#nasa #dart #asteroid #dimorphous #scientists #orbital

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I love it when Scientists use words like “squishy”!
“We need to now take what we know about how squishy the asteroid ended up being, how much stuff came off of it, how much we were able to move it, scale it up and do it again.”
NASA DART: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing mission | New Scientist

newscientist.com/article/23619 newscientist.com/article/23619

#space #asteroids #nasa #dimorphous

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