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NASA Captured Just in Time an Asteroid System Secretly Throwing Rocks at Itself

Summary by The Daily Galaxy
A subtle pattern hidden in spacecraft images has revealed that rocks are actively traveling between the asteroid Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos. This quiet exchange is described as “cosmic snowballs.” The finding, reported in The Planetary Science Journal on March 6, 2026, suggests that near-Earth asteroids are far more dynamic than previously thought. It also raises new questions about how these systems evolve, and how they might behave i…
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The Daily Galaxy broke the news in on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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