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rocketsocks t1_jajtzbs wrote on March 1, 2023 at 11:03 PM

Reply to comment by zeeblecroid in NASA’s DART data validates kinetic impact as planetary defense method | DART altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes by mepper

They were always expecting dimorphos to be a rubble pile. That's the whole reason they did the mission, to collect this data, because there are unknowns involved.