David Jewitt, a professor at UCLA, says the boulder storm is "like a cloud of shrapnel expanding from a hand grenade." by Mary Manley via sputniknews Experts have suggested that a newly-discovered pack of space boulders could carry an impact as strong and deadly as the force of the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima during the Second World War. The US space agency NASA accidentally forced the emergence of a swarm of boulders around the asteroid Dimorphos after testing the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, it was recently revealed. In fact, the boulders were shaken loose by NASA last September when the organization carried out tests for its DART mission, which is focused on establishing a concrete planetary defense method. However, astronomers believe the boulders may have already existed on Dimorphos' surface and that the DART spacecraft simply knocked them free once the test saw the vessel crash into the asteroid and redirect its trajectory. In total, the group of