After #NASA’s #DART mission slammed into #asteroid #Dimorphous in September 2022, #scientists determined the impact caused tons of rock to be ejected from the small asteroid’s surface. But more importantly, DART’s impact altered Dimorphos’ #orbital period, decreasing it by about 33 minutes.

https://www.universetoday.com/163089/dart-had-a-surprising-impact-on-its-target/

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
#space #asteroids #NASA #dimorphous
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