Could DART’s impact on Dimorphos create a Meteor Shower on Earth? 🤯 #shorts
In 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft made history, and changed the Solar System forever, by impacting the Dimorphos asteroid and measurably shifting its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. In the process a plume of debris was thrown out into space.
The latest modelling, available on the preprint server arXiv and accepted for publication in the September volume of The Planetary Science Journal, shows how small meteoroids from that debris could eventually reach both Mars and Earth – potentially in an observable (although quite safe) manner.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
📸 ASI/NASA/APL
#ESA #DART #MeteorShower
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And how would you prove that meteor shower was from Dimorphos. You can never prove it.
How dangerous is a meteor shower for all the satellites in orbit?
I would guess in general and especially another artificially made one is unwanted risk of collision and potential destruction of vital parts.
Remember to remind us a few days before it happens, and not as the rest of the media only after it happens