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

Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm::A UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determined that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks.

  • Thorndike@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Actually, a few mm/sec is quite a lot. That could easily be more than enough to deflect an asteroid from hitting earth. That few mm/sec will accumulate over the time it takes the asteroid to travel six million miles.

    • freecandy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well you would need the vector to predict that not just the speed (which they likely have, didn’t see it in the article), but pretty cool nonetheless