More than two million pounds of dusty rock flew into space during 's epic DART mission, creating an illuminated tail that stretched thousands of miles behind the 'moonlet' Dimorphos.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on September 26 proved humans could alter the trajectory of a hazardous asteroid headed for Earth. The latest data reveals that the momentum transferred was roughly 3.6 times greater than if the asteroid had absorbed the spacecraft and produced no ejecta – indicating the ejecta contributed to moving the asteroid more than the spacecraft did.
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