Dimorphos continues to puzzle scientists after NASA’s DART impact, raising new questions about asteroid behaviors and potential space interventions.
. The impact tossed approximately two million pounds of dusty rock into space—enough to fill six or seven railroad cars. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers identified nearly 40 boulders in close proximity to Dimorphos.
Before the DART mission, Dimorphos’s orbital period was already undergoing slow changes. Still, the observed differences can’t be explained by several known mechanisms, according to the researchers. These include the
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