NASA will hit the asteroid 11 million kilometers away in hours,
2NASA will hit the asteroid 11 million kilometers away in hours
The spacecraft that NASA launched about a year ago will crash into the asteroid called Dimorphos within hours. The spacecraft will hit the celestial body 11 million kilometers away at a speed of more than 20,000 kilometers per hour. The purpose of the mission, called DART, is to change the orbit of the asteroid.
The American Space and Aviation Administration (NASA) will hit an asteroid in infinite space. The name of the system integrated into a spacecraft to be in orbit of our planet was announced as DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test).
The vehicle carrying the DART system was launched in November 2021. The vehicle has traveled 11 million kilometers in the intervening year. As of tomorrow morning, there will be a missile attack on the asteroid called Dimorphos.
Dimorphos orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos.
The DART missile will hit Dimorphos at 21,700 kilometers per hour. The aim is to change the orbit of the meteorite. NASA engineers had calculated that the impact would occur in October 2022.
According to NASA's estimates, the impact will occur at 02:14 CEST on Tuesday. Many telescopes, including James Webb, will follow the impact.
The weight of the vehicle sent under DART is 570 kilograms. The diameter of the target asteroid is 160 meters.
NASA also sent a nano-satellite called LiciaCube with DART to record the event closely. This satellite left DART a few days ago.
This 14-kilogram satellite will photograph the moment of impact. LiciaCube, which will pass by Dimorphos about three minutes after the collision, will also record the crater on the asteroid. This is how the deviation in Dimorphos' orbit will be calculated.
POSSIBILITIES TO DESTROY THE WORLD
In recent years, a British firm has set the odds for disasters that will cause the end of our planet.
Here are those possibilities...
Invasion of our planet by an extraterrestrial civilization (Ratio: 500 to 1)
Black hole swallowing Earth (Ratio: 125 to 1)
Nanomachines ending human civilization and becoming the dominant species on our planet (Ratio: 100 to 1)
Artificial intelligence exiting humans' command (Ratio: 80 to 1)
Biological global warfare (Ratio: 60 to 1)
Any global natural disaster (Ratio 45 to 1)
Nuclear global war (Ratio: 30 to 1)
Global epidemic disease (Ratio: 2 to 1)
Doomsday (Odds 1 to 1)
The Sun turning into a giant star and ending life on our planet (Ratio: (1 to 1)
HOW TO DEAL WITH ASTEROIDS?
English astronomer Edmund Halley called an emergency meeting of the Royal Scientific Society in December 1694. In the secret meeting, the content of which was decided not to be made public, Halley shared his predictions that asteroids could hit Earth for the first time with members of the society.
By studying the trajectories of comets, Halley noticed that some of them intersect with Earth's orbit, making collisions likely.
Halley thought that the natural disasters mentioned in the Bible and the Torah may have been caused by asteroids hitting Earth in the past.