Absolutely true: NASA will launch a spacecraft to crash asteroids that will save Earth
After NASA warned of an asteroid making its way to Earth, it launched a spacecraft into space that this September will crash a similar asteroid in order to divert it from its deadly orbit
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11/05/2022
Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 11:45 p.m.
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NASA launches spacecraft to collide with asteroid 11/24/21 (Photo: Reuters)
A $ 240 million mission is expected to begin in September, when with the help of new technology in advanced stages, a half-ton spacecraft traveling at 23,000 km / h will crash into an asteroid called Dimorphus and is expected to change its trajectory.
Sounds familiar to you? A clear resemblance to Netflix's Don't Look Up movie, where a pair of scientists tried to warn the public of the imminent danger of an asteroid crashing on Earth and the U.S. government in response decided to launch a spacecraft toward it (only there things got a little complicated, without Spoilers).
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The DART (double asteroid redirection test) was developed by Andy Cheng, the lead scientist in the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Dr. Cheng told the Financial Times: "It's very exciting - like a dream come true - that something we've been thinking about for 20 years may actually happen."
Fortunately, none of the 27,000 "near-Earth objects" identified are considered Significant risk to our planet.However, the findings of the DART mission could provide valuable information if such a threat occurs. "We'll need more than one spacecraft."
This is how it will happen
DART's main aircraft was launched into space last November.
Winter will measure the impact, while another spacecraft, to be dispatched by the European Space Agency in 2026, will analyze each component of the impact.
NASA said: "DART is the first mission ever dedicated to investigating and demonstrating a single method of deflecting asteroids by altering the asteroid's motion in space through kinetic damage.
" We went and made his way to us.
Last month it was reported that the largest comet ever recorded (about 500 trillion tons) moves toward the Earth from the edge of the solar system at a speed of 35,000 km / h. About 130 km, which is about the distance from Tel Aviv to the Sea of Galilee.
However, NASA promises it will not approach more than a billion miles from the sun, and it will not be until 2031.
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