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Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash (www.bbc.co.uk)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The teams behind the DART mission are tracking it, and will continue to track it into the future. There is even a new mission set to launch to send another craft to the asteroid to gather more information. So, yeah lots of follow up to come over the next year. It is just far more likely that they don't really have much to say ATM aside from well, that is not acting as predicted, we need more evidence/data to figure out what exactly is going on. Which is what this students paper basically concluded.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dart-impact.html gives a far better overview of the situation than the BBC article linked above.