@boem to Space • 2 years 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-square@_wintermutelink15•2 years 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•2 years agoI think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.
minus-squaretallinkfedilink5•2 years agoI have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time 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
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.