MIT postdoc Saverio Cambioni discusses new science from NASA’s DART mission, which slammed into asteroid Dimorphos, deflecting it slightly and finding it to be a boulder-rich “rubble-pile.”
The mission, focused on the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid system, proved that an asteroid’s orbit can be altered by kinetic impactor technology. Rocks from space have walloped Earth for eons, and it’s only a matter of time until our planet lands yet again in the crosshairs of a very large asteroid. But unlike other forms of…
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