NASA's DART asteroid mission might completely deform small moonlet - Space.com


6/29/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Brett Tingley

A new study finds DART's impact could be stronger than expected.

A new simulation of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission suggests that rather than leaving a crater behind, the DART impactor could severely deform the small asteroid it will collid… [+2742 chars]

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