The battered asteroid Dimorphos also has five newly named boulders.
Using this data, scientists reconstructed DART's final moments, including the collision itself. The probe's targeted impact site was 25 inches wide , according to Ernst. That's smaller than DART's cross section, so the star tracker jetting out from the bottom of the probe was likely the first piece to take the hit.
Scientists also announced on Monday that the names of five features on Dimorphos' surface have been accepted by theHow humanity could deflect a giant killer asteroid DART view of Dimorphos, with newly named features annotated. Three of the five features are at the center of Dimorphos, while Dhol marks the big boulder on the moon's limb. Pūniu is a tiny rock that will be used to note latitudes and longitudes, scientists said.
Some of the new research presented included DART's final moments and Hubble Space Telescope observations of the ejecta and tail formations. These findings, which were
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