{"id":218650,"date":"2021-04-02T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-plans-head-on-collision-between-spaceship-and-asteroid\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:33:16","slug":"nasa-plans-head-on-collision-between-spaceship-and-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-plans-head-on-collision-between-spaceship-and-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA plans head-on collision between spaceship and asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA plans head-on collision between spaceship and asteroid<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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NASA is organizing a boxing match set among the stars.<\/p>\n

In case an asteroid one day threatens Earth\u2019s existence, NASA has developed a contingency plan: Punch that asteroid with a spaceship. The plan is already well into its demo phase.<\/p>\n

\u201cUp until now, we haven\u2019t had too many options for what we might do if we found something that was incoming,\u201d Johns Hopkins planetary astronomer Andy Rivkin told Vice News<\/a> of NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test<\/a> (DART) mission. \u201cDART is the first test of how we might be able to deflect something without having to resort to a nuclear package, or sitting in our basements, waiting it out and crossing our fingers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The planetary defense mission is set for its first launch this summer, and it is anticipated to make impact in late 2022. Its target is the smaller of two space rocks \u2014 a moon named Dimorphos \u2014 which are circling each other in the asteroid system Didymos, Vice reported. Based on how successful DART is in knocking Dimorphos away from the other space rock, they will gauge how realistic their plan to potentially one day save Earth this way is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One major concern is that DART \u2014 which will be making impact at app<\/a>roximately four miles a second \u2014 will punch the moon in a way that breaks off chunks of it, thus creating more \u2014 albeit smaller \u2014 threats to humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An illustration of the DART spacecraft.<\/figcaption>
NASA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Italian Space Agency is collaborating on the asteroid-spaceship brawl, supplying a relatively small satellite by which to observe \u201cthe mess we make,\u201d as Rivkin put it. Earthbound humans will also be watching by way of very powerful telescopes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the mission is a success, DART will alter the trajectory of Dimorphos in a move that can be replicated in the future, should Earth be under planetary threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mission may sound insane because it is: The possibility that an asteroid will threaten life as humans know it is extremely unlikely, Rivkin told Vice. Mostly, scientists are just really curious about what\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf asteroids are to keep you awake at night, let it be with excitement about how cool they are, and not concern,\u201d Rivkin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A schematic of the DART mission shows the impact on the moonlet of asteroid (65803) system Didymos.<\/figcaption>
NASA\/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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