Interestingly enough, multiple teams of scientists hypothesized earlier this year that Dimorphos was displaced from its orbit so significantly not just because of the DART impact, but also because of the massive debris tail the collision caused.Īs ScienceAlert reported back in March, the journal Nature published a series of articles about the Dimorphos debris, with three of them finding that the asteroid's long post-smashing tail seemed to increase its momentum more than anyone could have expected. Roger /If65C792hdĪfter the impact, a whopping 6,214-mile tail of debris trailed the asteroid for months on end - and although scientists were looking to only alter the orbit of the "moonlet" asteroid by about seven minutes, the impact of NASA's refrigeration-sized spacecraft was diminished by a whopping 33 minutes. Mis primeras impresiones con los RGBs #DART Mission #LICIACube - #Luke - RGB target: #Didymos #Dimorphos
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