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Ep. 623: NEOs: Concern or Nah

Astronomy Cast

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The Moon Is Not an Earth Crossing Asterate

Asteraditimus has a moon called, officially dimorphos, and unofficially, didty moon. So when it gets close enough, it's going to launch those cubesats, and it'll fling itself into ditty moon. Since that change in orbit can up to ten minutes, they can actually see how much of the kinetic energy of the spacecraft is imparted to teThe answer could be anything from it's like benn and they just kind of end up imbedded inside a ball pit of a moon.

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