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Human-Made Meteor Shower
September 17 , 2024
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- Debris from a two-year-old Nasa mission could be the cause of first man-made meteor shower.
- Nasa's Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) mission, intentionally collided with the moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022.
- It may result in this unique phenomenon.
- The mission is aimed to test asteroid deflection technology.
- Scientists now believe the impact produced over 2 million pounds of debris that could create meteor showers around Earth and Mars within 10 to 30 years.
- Due to the collision, fragments from Dimorphos could intermittently and periodically arrive at Earth and Mars for at least 100 years.
- The debris is traveling at 1,118 miles per hour could reach Mars.
- The smaller and faster particles moving at 3,579 miles per hour could reach Earth in under 10 years.
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