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Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash::A school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid deliberately hit by a Nasa spacecraft is behaving in a weird way.

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[–] 88 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The summary bot didn’t even list the odd behavior. It has continued to decelerate a month after impact. Find that a bit unusual and counterintuitive to newton’s laws. But I’m not a physicist.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    It appears to be slowing down. That means it's either generating thrust (outgassing etc), still being impacted by debris, or their measurements have been thrown off by something. All would be interesting, in their own way.

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