CNN reports The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released the results of the new study on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 local time. In September 2022, the Dart spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to test whether it might deflect the asteroid’s orbit. This mission marks the first time in human history that efforts have been made to protect the Earth from other dangerous asteroid strikes. crash into the world in the future
NASA published a new study this time in the journal Nature that the DART spacecraft, weighing regarding 1,200 pounds (or 544 kilograms), crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos at 13,000 miles per hour (regarding 20,921 kilometers). per hour) to try to change the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos. Like a moon orbiting the asteroid Didymos, which is larger.
NASA said the mission following the DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid. Dimorphos this time It was successful because now the asteroid has changed its orbital time. Asteroid Didymos in regarding 33 minutes.
According to NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope can record the event while the spacecraft DART Crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos. causing a cloud of dust and rocks weighing more than 1,000 tons and making a long tail similar to a comet cone-shaped
