With a diameter of about 160 meters, the small moon Dimorphos orbits the larger body Didymos in what is known as a binary asteroid system.
The DART spacecraft, or the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, made contact with Dimorphos on September 26, 2022.
The DART impact offers a rare opportunity to investigate the delivery of ejecta to other celestial bodies,
thanks to the fact that we know the impact location and that this impact was observed by the Italian LICIACube deployed from DART as well as by Earth-based observers.
To understand how the debris from the Dimorphos impact might reach us, it's essential to assess its speed.
In the coming decades, meteor observation campaigns will be crucial in determining whether fragments of Dimorphos, resulting from the DART impact, will reach our planet.
As for the consequential meteoroids, the largest ones would likely be about the size of a softball.
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