Doesn’t matter unless it was able to make some difference to the course
We won’t know for months because ….
the supercomputers are taking a siesta
We won’t know for months because … the supercomputers are taking a siesta
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and they forgot to include a companion unit to stand off and send what happened after the impact. Now they are reduced to inferring what happened to something that is not more than a few pixels as seen from Earth.
Considering the mass of the asteroid (about the size of a football stadium) and the mass of DART (double-wide Coke machine) I would be surprised if it made any difference. Thousands of tonnes of rock getting impacted by a few hundred pounds is unlikely to produce any significant change.
What really surprised me was that they even hit that rock!
Good shooting!