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On Tuesday night, September 27, the spacecraft of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) DART mission is scheduled to crash into the asteroid Didim – Dimorph.
As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported by Space.com.
The collision is expected to take place at 02:14 Kyiv time.
If all goes according to plan, the DART spacecraft will crash into Dimorph at 6.6 km per second to change its trajectory.
The mission aims to test the theory that this technique could be used to change the course of an asteroid if space rock were to point directly towards Earth in the future.
While neither Didim nor Dimorf pose a threat to planet Earth, the results of the DART mission will provide important information for scientists and engineers to develop plans to protect Earth in the future.
The NASA broadcast can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Z1E0mW2ag starting from 00:30 Kyiv time.
As reported, on November 24 last year, NASA, in conjunction with SpaceX, successfully launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle into space with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission instrument. NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission is the first attempt to test whether an asteroid’s course change is realistic.
Source: Ukrinform
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