A school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid deliberately hit by a Nasa spacecraft is behaving in a weird way.

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.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is one of the more fascinating space stories. The modeling for such an object should be (relatively speaking), rather simple. Something isn’t going to speed up or slow down without a force being applied to it. So NASA should be able to model this quite accurately.

    • Pretzilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Guessing it’s not perfectly simple because the splatter, dust, heat energy released, oblique angle of impact, etc.

      Space Balls colliding are a bit trickier than clacker balls.

      {edited to get to say Space Balls}