boem@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to [email protected]@lemmy.world · 2 years agoPlanetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarmnewsroom.ucla.eduexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·2 years ago UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determines that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks Unanticipated? Really? It was the very first thing that crossed my mind when I heard about DART - what happens to all the bits that break off? Maybe I should give NASA a call… ;-)
minus-square_wintermute@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·2 years agoYeah, seems pretty unlikely NASA scientists didn’t predict debris from a >13,000km/hr collision of rock and half a ton of metal lol
minus-squareCouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 years agoI think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoShitty science journalism strikes again
minus-squaretal@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoI have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.
minus-squareLazaroFlim@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoJournalist didn’t think of it.
minus-squarerambaroo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.
Unanticipated? Really? It was the very first thing that crossed my mind when I heard about DART - what happens to all the bits that break off?
Maybe I should give NASA a call… ;-)
Yeah, seems pretty unlikely NASA scientists didn’t predict debris from a >13,000km/hr collision of rock and half a ton of metal lol
I think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.
Shitty science journalism strikes again
I have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.
Journalist didn’t think of it.
thinking shit up?
I remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.