Nasa’s test knocked the asteroid Dimorphos, in blue, off course, but accidentally released a swarm of boulders, circled - Nasa/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA)/Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Mathew 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Nasa asteroid strike unleashes boulder storm ‘as deadly as Hiroshima’
- A storm of boulders “as deadly as Hiroshima” was accidentally unleashed by Nasa during tests to change the trajectory of an asteroid, scientists have found.
- Last September, the agency crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in the first planetary defense experiment aimed at finding ways to protect humanity from an extinction-level event.
- Now astronomers have found that although the impact succeeded in knocking Dimorphos slightly off course, it also dislodged 37 boulders, which are currently zipping through space at 13,000 mph.
- Experts said it showed that deflection strategies could have unintended consequences that leave smaller rocks on a collision course with Earth.
- The rocks are not shattered pieces of the asteroid, but were already scattered on the surface and knocked off by the shock of the impact
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