The goal of the NASA DART mission is to test the possibility of changing the trajectory of dangerous asteroids due to the attack of sondic quadcads. To do this, at the end of last year, a device was sent into space, which covered about 5 million km and in September 2022 crashed into asteroID Dimorphos at a speed of 22,500 km/h.
The POINT of the incident was detected on rounds in the vicinity by the CubeSat satellite and ground-based telescopes. The calculations of the NASA setialists were justified: as a result of rotation, the orbit of Dimorphos deviated by 33 minutes about. At the same time, a giant plume of fragments and dust was formed, which stretched for more than 10,000 km. According to scientists, their total weight is about 1000 tons.
Dimorphos first two minutes after collisionsBased on this, a transmitted asteroid pulse circulates in NASA, which turned out to be almost 4 times greater, which took place with the full amount of absorption of the probe by dimorphosoms without ejection of rock. This means that almost a ton of fragments are ejected per change in the asteroid’s orbit more than ud.
The results of these studies will help in the future planning of missions related to the threat of Earth propagation with the approach of an asteroid or a potentially dangerous space phenomenon. body.
Source: Tech Cult
