Planiraju da udare raketom jedan (doduše dosta mali) asteroid i da vide mogu li mu promeniti putanju. Zanimljivo :) Najzad počinjemo da delujemo i na svemir :)
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-renames-small-moon-smash
NASA Renames Small Moon It Plans to Smash With SpaceX
Nice Gesture
In 2022, NASA plans to https://futurism.com/nasa-is-moving-forward-with-its-plan-to-deflect-an-asteroid-from-earth crash a spacecraft directly into a tiny moon, in a mission known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — to try out a potential strategy to divert a killer asteroid heading toward Earth.
The moon, which is only 160 meters across, is orbiting the asteroid Didymos, which flew near Earth back in 2003, https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/312067-astronomers-give-asteroid-moon-a-new-name-nasa-spacecraft?source=Extreme ExtremeTech https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/312067-astronomers-give-asteroid-moon-a-new-name-nasa-spacecraft?source=Extreme reports. Its small size and close proximity to Earth make it the perfect target for an asteroid-diverting mission, but NASA ran into a serious problem: Its name, Didymos B, isn’t nearly sexy enough for its role in a cool mission.
Thus, the moon Didymos B became Dimorphos.
DART Board
NASA is collaborating https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasas-dart-spacex-incoming-asteroids with both SpaceX and the European Space Agency (ESA) on this DART mission. In 2021, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch on a crash course with Dimorphos — the plan is to ram the tiny moon so hard that it gets knocked out of its regular orbit around Didymos.
Recently, some other ideas for how to divert a killer asteroid, like https://futurism.com/the-byte/deflect-killer-asteroids-tie-shoelaces-together tethering it to another one to send it spiraling off course, have surfaced. But for now, NASA wants to test some good old-fashioned percussive maintenance.
Follow-Up
After the deed is done, the ESA will launch a https://futurism.com/the-byte/esa-mission-deflect-killer-asteroids follow-up mission dubbed Hera to track Dimorphos’ new orbit around Didymos, according to ExtremeTech.
But that won’t happen until 2024, meaning we’ll have to wait for years — thinking about the cosmic horrors we’ve wrought — and wondering whether crashing rockets into asteroids can actually divert them.
READ MORE: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/312067-astronomers-give-asteroid-moon-a-new-name-nasa-spacecraft?source=Extreme Astronomers Give Asteroid Moon a New Name Before NASA Hits It With a Spacecraft [ExtremeTech]
More on asteroid collisions: https://futurism.com/the-byte/deflect-killer-asteroids-tie-shoelaces-together New Plan To Deflect Killer Asteroids: Tie Their Shoelaces Together
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