232: How many potholes are on an asteroid?

Artist’s illustration of the DART spacecraft (source)

A question from Issac, age 5. Dr. Nancy Chabot answers. For more on Dr. Chabot’s work, see episodes 7 and 152. For more on the Planetary Defense, see this NASA website. For more on the DART mission, see the mission website.

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