• SanguinePar
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    281 year ago

    UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determines that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks

    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… ;-)

    • @_wintermute
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      151 year ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        I think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          91 year ago

          Shitty science journalism strikes again

        • tal
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          51 year ago

          I have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.

    • @rambaroo
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      21 year ago

      I remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.