Successful results in changing the orbit of an asteroid.
Successful results in changing the orbit of an asteroid.
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Today, Tuesday, October 11, NASA offered a press conference where it reported the result of the Dart planetary defense mission and gave the answer to the big question we expected, was the asteroid managed to be diverted, the answer is Yes.
Neither of these two asteroids posed a risk to the earth, they were simply perfect for testing, the objective of the mission was to move the dimorphic asteroid, which acts as the moon, in such a way that the orbit was shortened by approximately 1% or 10 minutes, although those responsible for the mission were content to shorten the orbit by 73 seconds, in this way the movement of the asteroid would be altered but it would continue to orbit Didinos. And both asteroids would continue to revolve around the sun without posing a risk to our planet.
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Knowing if the asteroid had been diverted was the main data expected from the mission, but there are many more topics to study, enigmas to solve and effects to explain, for example, how much material was expelled by the impact, because the amount seems huge, currently these remains of dust and rocks have formed a tail of more than 10,000 kilometers, Dimorphos more than an asteroid looks like a comet right now.
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