NASA's DART Craft Could Leave Asteroid 'Unrecognizable': Study - ExtremeTech

With a diameter of just 560 feet (170 meters), NASA expected DART's 500-kilogram impactor to leave a crater and affect the satellite's orbit around the larger Didymos. Not so, says the new study.

Earth has been walloped by enormous asteroids in the past, and it’s going to happen again. For the first time in history, there’s a chance that we could intercept one of these objects and prevent an … [+2696 chars]

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