Collision at Asteroid Dimorphos

Why became this collision so unfamiliar? In 2022, to manufacture Earth-saving know-how, NASA deliberately crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. The hope became that this collision would alter the trajectory of Dimorphos around its parent asteroid Didymos and so mutter that associated collisions could perchance moreover, in theory, keep the Earth from being hit by (diversified) dangerous asteroids. But analyses of most up-to-date results divulge that the effects of the collision are diversified than expected — and we’re making an try to like why. Featured here is the time lapse video taken by the ejected LICIACube digital camera LUKE displaying about 250 seconds of the rising debris self-discipline of Dimorphos after the collision, with un-impacted Didymos passing in the foreground. In 2026, Europe’s Hera mission will reach the asteroids and release three spacecraft to better survey the topic.