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That's all well and good, but it looks like that smashing event also had some unintended consequences: debris from the asteroid may be headed back to Earth in the first ever man-made meteor shower, according to researchers in Spain and Italy.
After performing an in-depth analysis of the impact DART made on Dimorphos and the millions of the resulting fragments, the researchers concluded in athat many of the small chunks from the crash will reach Mars and Earth — though importantly, they won't pose any danger. "If these ejected Dimorphos fragments reach Earth, they will not pose any risk," Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy aerospace engineer and astrophysicist and study lead author Eloy Peña-Asensio. "Their small size and high speed will cause them to disintegrate in the atmosphere, creating a beautiful luminous streak in the sky.
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