UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determines that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks

Unanticipated? Really? It was the very first thing that crossed my mind when I heard about DART - what happens to all the bits that break off?

Maybe I should give NASA a call... ;-)
- Yeah, seems pretty unlikely NASA scientists didn't predict debris from a >13,000km/hr collision of rock and half a ton of metal lol
  
  I think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn't mention it being unforeseen at all.
  
  Shitty science journalism strikes again
  
  I have definitely read about fragmentation being a concern in deflecting asteroids a long time ago.
  
  Journalist didn’t think of it.
- thinking shit up?
- I remember reading about this idea in the 90s when Armageddon came out.

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