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  • Could DART’s impact on Dimorphos create a Meteor Shower on Earth? 🤯 #shorts

    Could DART’s impact on Dimorphos create a Meteor Shower on Earth? 🤯 #shorts

    In 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft made history, and changed the Solar System forever, by impacting the Dimorphos asteroid and measurably shifting its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. In the process a plume of debris was thrown out into space.

    The latest modelling, available on the preprint server arXiv and accepted for publication in the September volume of The Planetary Science Journal, shows how small meteoroids from that debris could eventually reach both Mars and Earth – potentially in an observable (although quite safe) manner.

    📹 ESA – European Space Agency
    📸 ASI/NASA/APL

    #ESA #DART #MeteorShower

  • Why we are sending a spacecraft to Dimorphos ☄️ #shorts

    Why we are sending a spacecraft to Dimorphos ☄️ #shorts

    On 26 September 2022, NASA’s approximately half-tonne Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft impacted the Dimorphos asteroid at an approximate speed of 6.1 km/s, shortening its orbit around Didymos by more than half an hour.

    Our Hera spacecraft will be launched this October to reach Dimorphos and perform a close-up ‘crash scene investigation’, gathering data on the asteroid’s mass, structure and make-up to turn this kinetic impact method of planetary defence into a well understood and repeatable technique.

    📸 ESA – European Space Agency
    📹 ESA/NASA

    #ESA #NASA #Hera