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@ThereIsNoMirror No need to worry. DART’s target is the well studied and well known asteroid system Didymos, comprised of the 780-meter (2,560-foot)-diameter “Didymos” and the smaller, 163-meter (535-foot)-diameter “Dimorphos,” which orbits Didymos; DART will impact Dimorphos. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 26, 2022

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@okdawgg DART is far too small to knock Dimorphos out of its orbit around Didymos. This impact will change the path of the smaller asteroid just enough to be measured by Earth-based telescopes (less than 1%). This asteroid system has been studied for years and its mass is well known. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 26, 2022

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@felipefigari No. The DART kinetic impact will produce debris ("ejecta") blown off the surface of the asteroid, but this material won’t be moving fast enough, or in the right direction, to reach Earth. Didymos will be about 11 million km (6.7 million miles) from Earth at the DART impact. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 26, 2022