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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.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

The summary bot didn’t even list the odd behavior. It has continued to decelerate a month after impact. Find that a bit unusual and counterintuitive to newton’s laws. But I’m not a physicist.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 84 points 1 year ago

It's slowing down to look for the fucker that sucker punched him lol

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It was an alien ship with camouflage and they ain't happy.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

It appears to be slowing down. That means it's either generating thrust (outgassing etc), still being impacted by debris, or their measurements have been thrown off by something. All would be interesting, in their own way.

[-] KidDogDad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Somewhere a dev in the real world is scrambling to fix the bug in the simulation’s physics engine.

[-] volodymyr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I guess they broke their engine! /s

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