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What would really happen if you landed on an asteroid?

Asteroids are far weirder than we had imagined 鈥 landing on one wouldn't go as you expected, says astronomer Phil Plait

By Phil Plait

4 August 2023

Asteroids look and behave very differently from the way they are depicted in sci-fi

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