The event took place 11 million kilometers from Earth and was a breakthrough in the security of our planet.
The US space agency NASA said that the first mission to deliberately collide a spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorph was not only accurate, but was able to radically change its trajectory, the press service reports.
It was noted that with this the aerospace administration has proven that it is able to prevent a potential fall of a dangerous asteroid to Earth in the future.
Asteroid Diffmorph impacted on September 26, 2022. The bright event was visible even from Earth. Observations showed that the rotation time of Dimorph around Didyma accelerated: from 11 hours 55 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes. So there was a remarkable change in 32 minutes.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland broadcast the $330 million carefully staged impact two weeks ago, giving viewers incredible footage of the space crash. .
The 500-kilogram apparatus simulated a space projectile. His weapon is his mass and speed, so the sheer force of a kinetic impact on an asteroid at a speed of 21 thousand km / h was used. The impact of the spacecraft left a crater on the surface and formed a tail of dust 10 thousand km long, but did not blow the asteroid to pieces. The experiment was conducted 11 million kilometers from Earth.
It’s just in: The #DARTmission The impact was confirmed to have changed the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos around its asteroid Didymos.
For the first time, humans changed the motion of an object in the sky. More details: https://t.co/aQj8N7fnuV pic.twitter.com/NLR6AqEcaO
— NASA (@NASA) October 11, 2022
It will be remembered that the American DART probe collided with the asteroid Dimorphos as part of an experiment to change the trajectory on September 26.
The SOAR telescope took a picture of the tail from the debris of the crashed asteroid
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