Debris from an asteroid deflected by NASA could reach our planet within the next decade, a study says. The research team ran simulations that tracked 3 million debris particles from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which collided a spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. NASA launched the mission as a test for deflecting an Earth-destroying asteroid in the future.
The DART mission was a success, but simulations showed that resulting debris could one day reach Mars and the Earth-moon system as meteors. The asteroid Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. Scientists are now simulating what could become of the debris produced by the collision.
If these meteors reach Earth, they will not pose any threat to our planet. Their small size and high speed will cause them to burn up in the atmosphere, creating 'a beautiful luminous streak in the sky,' according to Eloy Peña-Asensio, a research fellow at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan and the study's lead author. The study appeared online as a pre-print, meaning it hasn't been reviewed by other scientists, but has been accepted for publication by The Planetary Science.
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