@boem to Space • 11 months agoPlanetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarmnewsroom.ucla.edumessage-square13arrow-up154arrow-down13cross-posted to: technology[email protected]
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minus-squareSanguineParlink28•11 months 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… ;-)
minus-square@_wintermutelink15•11 months agoYeah, seems pretty unlikely NASA scientists didn’t predict debris from a >13,000km/hr collision of rock and half a ton of metal lol
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•11 months agoI think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.
minus-squaretallinkfedilink5•11 months agoI have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.
minus-square@rambaroolink2•11 months agoI remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.
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… ;-)
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
I think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.
Shitty science journalism strikes again
I have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.
Journalist didn’t think of it.
thinking shit up?
I remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.