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Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly (archive.ph)
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When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why

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