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Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
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Unanticipated? Really? It was the very first thing that crossed my mind when I heard about DART - what happens to all the bits that break off?
Maybe I should give NASA a call... ;-)
Yeah, seems pretty unlikely NASA scientists didn't predict debris from a >13,000km/hr collision of rock and half a ton of metal lol
I think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn't mention it being unforeseen at all.
Shitty science journalism strikes again
I have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.
Journalist didn’t think of it.
thinking shit up?
I remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.