To: djstex
To: stars & stripes forever
Thanks SSF.....this is the results of bring over evil Nazis by the Deep State. Current estimates suggest that the boulder swarm is not alone and that about 1,000 tons of debris was blasted away from Dimorphos by the impact – enough rock to fill 60 train carriages. Jewitt and other astronomers are now concerned that a boulder from a future asteroid deflection could reach the planet at the same speed the Dimorphos boulder swarm is hurtling and cause "tremendous damage." He now wants Hubble to continue observing the asteroid swarm to help pin down their precise trajectories to see if any of them end up becoming a threat to the Earth.
"If we follow the boulders in future Hubble observations, we may have enough data to pin down the boulders' precise trajectories," said Jewitt. "And then we'll see in which directions they were launched from the surface and figure out exactly how they were ejected.">
Current estimates suggest that the boulder swarm is not alone and that about 1,000 tons of debris was blasted away from Dimorphos by the impact – enough rock to fill 60 train carriages.
Jewitt and other astronomers are now concerned that a boulder from a future asteroid deflection could reach the planet at the same speed the Dimorphos boulder swarm is hurtling and cause "tremendous damage." He now wants Hubble to continue observing the asteroid swarm to help pin down their precise trajectories to see if any of them end up becoming a threat to the Earth.
"If we follow the boulders in future Hubble observations, we may have enough data to pin down the boulders' precise trajectories," said Jewitt. "And then we'll see in which directions they were launched from the surface and figure out exactly how they were ejected."
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08/12/2023 7:22:08 AM PDT by
STARLIT
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