The recent observations prove that not all asteroids are boring objects simply hanging out in space.
Gone are the days when we believed asteroids to be just large rocks hanging out in space. As space exploration has progressed, we have come to note that they are much more complex than that.
. DART has now had first-hand experience with the asteroid up close , giving researchers troves of data about its shape, mass, and rotation.The experts have discovered the asteroid is spinning very quickly, completing one full rotation every 2 hours and 16 minutes. That’s super fast. In this region, rocks and dust are able to lift off the surface and even move into orbit. This makes Didymos a spinning asteroid that is spewing out constant materials in its vicinity and beyond.
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