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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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

smaller pieces which fell off are hard to track while their effect on the trajectory might still be substantial. Small change to the orbit early on makes a big difference after a while.

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