NASA Mission Accidentally Sends Space Rocks Hurtling Towards Mars

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NASA Mission Accidentally Sends Space Rocks Hurtling Towards Mars
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A new analysis of the debris ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos when NASA slammed the DART spacecraft into it has revealed that some of the rocks could be on a collision course with

By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller asteroid, Dimorphos, and measuring the changes to its orbit, NASA learned that we have the means tothat may be on a dangerous trajectory toward Earth, so long as we have enough time to plan and execute the mission. But what became of the rocks thus spewed? That's what astronomers Marco Fenucci of the European Space Agency and Albino Carbognani of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy explore in a paper published in the

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