- cross-posted to:
- space@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- space@lemmy.world
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.
The summary bot didn’t even list the odd behavior. It has continued to decelerate a month after impact. Find that a bit unusual and counterintuitive to newton’s laws. But I’m not a physicist.
It’s slowing down to look for the fucker that sucker punched him lol
It was an alien ship with camouflage and they ain’t happy.
It appears to be slowing down. That means it’s either generating thrust (outgassing etc), still being impacted by debris, or their measurements have been thrown off by something. All would be interesting, in their own way.
Somewhere a dev in the real world is scrambling to fix the bug in the simulation’s physics engine.
I guess they broke their engine! /s