NASA, asteroid will test its technology against crashes Darts He will start his mission tomorrow. So the purpose of the mission is to see what technology might be needed to deflect a dangerous future asteroid from its course. Agency for launch, artificial satellite dimorphos identified the asteroid set. This satellite will be hit by the spacecraft that will be launched tomorrow.
in 2005 US Congress, NASA Greater than 140 meters It led them to explore and track 90 percent of near-Earth asteroids. No known asteroid in this category poses an immediate threat to Earth. But only an estimated 40 percent of these objects were actually detected.
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NASA launches the Dart mission tomorrow!
Scientists are predicting a huge impact on our planet in the future. your asteroid Worried about crashing. Therefore, researchers an artificial satellite will launch a new space mission tomorrow to hit it. Science team with spacecraft dimorphos He wants to see how much his speed and path will change by hitting the object named.
If an asteroid several hundred meters in diameter collides with our planet, continent-wide destruction could occur. Those who are curious about this and want to take precautions NASA, prepared the first artificial collision attempt (Dart mission). From the agency’s planetary defense coordination office Kelly Fast“Dart will change the period of Dimorphos’ orbit by a small amount.” said.
BBCAccording to the news of , on Wednesday (tomorrow) morning, a ship carrying the Dart spacecraft Falcon 9 rocket It will take off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. $325 million this mission will target a pair of asteroids closely following each other. Didymos The smaller one has a diameter of 780 meters dimorphos It is about 160 meters wide.
To expand the subject a little more, objects the size of Dimorphos are quite dangerous. Because it can explode, devastate populated areas and cause tens of thousands of casualties. Diameter of from 300 meters While larger asteroids can cause continent-wide destruction, from 1 kilometer The bigger ones will be effective worldwide.
NASA says Dart rover about Dimorphos 6.6 km/s announced that it would hit quickly. Thus, the object must change its velocity at a rate of less than one millimeter per second. Therefore, Didymos must also change its orbit around it. With this very small deflection operation, it is possible to remove an object from its collision course with the Earth.