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12 October 2022 at 7:47 am
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Nick James
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It is interesting that the velocity change is larger than would be expected and it appears that much of the momentum change came from ejecta rather than the spacecraft. That is something specific to rubble-pile objects I guess. A solid object would produce far less ejecta.