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Fred Bloggs
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Goes to show the kinetic energy factor is real impact multiplier.
The impact ejected at least one million kilograms of rock from Dimorphosâs 4.3-billion-kilogram mass. The debris formed a tail that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometres behind the asteroid. Various telescopes watched over weeks as the tail shifted and evolved under the pressure of the Sunâs rays; the Hubble Space Telescope even detected a second tail, which had disappeared by 18 days after the impact3.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00601-4
The impact ejected at least one million kilograms of rock from Dimorphosâs 4.3-billion-kilogram mass. The debris formed a tail that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometres behind the asteroid. Various telescopes watched over weeks as the tail shifted and evolved under the pressure of the Sunâs rays; the Hubble Space Telescope even detected a second tail, which had disappeared by 18 days after the impact3.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00601-4