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Smacked Asteroid’s Debris Trail More Than 6,000 Miles Long

View Source | October 4, 2022 3:34 pm

  • The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
  • Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. Their remarkable observation two days after last month’s planetary defense test was recently released a National Science Foundation lab in Arizona.
  • The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long, consisting of dust and other material spewed from the impact crater.
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