Comment on Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year agoWasn’t it boulders like laying around on the asteroid? Held there by microgravity, and thus knocked in all directions at the impact?
I mean debris from the impact, yes, “boulders” laying around, no I didn’t expect that :-)
Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au 1 year ago
OK. Then. I guess the summary would be like, the asteroid was more loose than we though, and we had no idea how the boulders got ejected from the surface because our impact.