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Credit: ASI / NASA NASA plunged a refrigerator-sized spacecraft into a stadium-sized asteroid in 2022, with hopes of simply nudging it. The impact cut Dimorphos' loop around its parent asteroid ...
A zoomed-in image shows the asteroid Dimorphos and impact ejecta (left), along with a simulation of the DART spacecraft's impact (right). The asteroid reshaped itself after the collision.
But now astronomers have learned more, finding that the impact may have reshaped the asteroid significantly. The asteroid impacted, called Dimorphos, is very small at around 500 feet across ...
Japan would disappear entirely under the fireball if our asteroid hit the Tokyo bay. The resulting crater would also start a 1.1-mile-tall tsunami. The impact of an asteroid in Paris would have ...
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Since then, various observatories have been analyzing the data to try to piece together what the debris from the impact tells us about the structure of the asteroid. All of those observations have ...
CNN — (CNN) — When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, the impact may have caused “global deformation ...
When NASA's DART deep space probe smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, it didn't leave a crater. Instead, there was a splash, where the asteroid was distorted like a jelly as its entire structure ...