Posted on 07/28/2025 11:49:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why was this collision so strange? In 2022, to develop Earth-saving technology, NASA deliberately crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. The hope was that this collision would alter the trajectory of Dimorphos around its parent asteroid Didymos and so demonstrate that similar collisions could, in theory, save the Earth from being hit by (other) hazardous asteroids. But analyses of new results show that the effects of the collision are different than expected -- and we are trying to understand why. Featured here is the time lapse video taken by the ejected LICIACube camera LUKE showing about 250 seconds of the expanding debris field of Dimorphos after the collision, with un-impacted Didymos passing in the foreground. In 2026, Europe's Hera mission will reach the asteroids and release three spacecraft to better study the matter.
Short video at link
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔 Short video at link
And now they have hundreds of little projectiles in all sorts of directions...................
Hay, it’s Rocket Science.
“And now they have hundreds of little projectiles in all sorts of directions...”
Mom always had the Corelle, ‘unbreakable’ dishes when we were growing up. Sis and I were doing dishes one night after supper and we decided to chuck one at the wall, just to see if that was true.
It wasn’t. It went off like a grenade! And we were in a LOT of trouble. Mom wasn’t buying the, ‘But, it slipped!’ excuse...
smh... 250 seconds!?? more like 250 milliseconds. waste of time...
Yeah, really short. Two seconds.
I don’t pick them, I just post what NASA puts up. If you want to complain, you will need to get in line behind me. My biggest complaint is the 0bama era muslim (and china) outreach. Many posts are substandard muslim or chinese images when there are great Hubble and Webb images that are passed over.
i know... I’m sorry... rest assured, my bitch*ng is not directed at you!! its totally directed at APOD! you just gotta duck every once in a while! ;P
I know how to duck and weave!
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