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Here’s some good news for fans of shooting stars. Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids. New research suggests fragments will arrive in the vicinity of Earth and Mars within one to three decades. “This material could produce visible meteors as they penetrate the Martian atmosphere,” said lead study author Eloy Peña Asensio. Read more from CNN: https://flip.it/F4dEo5
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