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.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    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.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      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.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

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