Space probe's collision with asteroid: Study assesses ejecta momentum enhancement

ScienceDaily
Nov 1, 2022, 2:07 pm105 pts
On September 26, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, at 14,000 miles per hour. Prior to the impact, engineers and scientists performed an experiment to study the cratering process that produces the mass of ejected…

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