One of DARTs last photos of Dimorphos

[LunaSea]

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https://dart.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/article.php?id=20220926

[Walleye]

1. That is so cool

[bahboo]

2. it was incredible to watch...

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Imagine if there had been an obvious fossil or artifact right in the middle ... nt

[LunaSea]

4. How weird.....

I was entertaining the same thought.

Interestingly, artist Chesley Bonestell (considered the "father" of modern space art) would often add an tiny cow skull to some
of his extraterrestrial desert and planetary paintings.
Perhaps we all have some sense of expectation when seeing such scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell
https://bonestell.org/Image-Gallery.aspx

I've no doubt the moon hoax/nasacoverup crowd will have found dozens
of "artifacts" in the debris by now.

Funny how so many early visualizations depicted asteroids as smooth sculpted bodies
when in reality so many look like a piece of hard candy that's been rolling around
under a car seat for a few years.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Thanks for the link -- I remember being awestruck seeing those paintings in NatGeo growing up ...

I never spotted a cow skull, though !

[sl8]

5. Or even just an Orange Julius stand. nt

[Kablooie]

6. It looks like it might not be solid.

We think of asteroids as huge hunks of rock or metal but they might often be a bunch of small rocks loosely Held together by gravity. If this is the case, instead of knocking a big rock into a modified orbit, It might have just scattered them like a bunch of pool balls. How this would affect the orbit remains to be seen.

[Tolerant1]

8. Watched this live...

I'm always in awe of people with the intellect to make things like this happen...to be able to create a "machine" that can be at a precise spot millions of miles away at the exact time it needs to be!