By: My Space
On Sept 16, NASA's DART mission successfully completed its defence test and made history in defence program.
This DART probe smashed asteroid which is about 7 million miles from Earth. It hits with speed 14,000 miles per hour (22,530 kilometers per hour).
It smashed with named Dimorphos, around a larger asteroid, named Didymos. Main goal of this mission is to alter the path..
It is to be clear that, Dimorphos and Didymos make no threat to our Earth, it is only to check how can we defense our future asteroids threats.
Collision was successful, after weeks of post analysis study NASA clear that DART officially altered its target's orbit by 33 minutes.
Most strikingly, they estimate that the crash displaced over 2 million pounds (1 million kilograms) of the asteroid's dusty rock into space.
Impacting the asteroid was just the start. Now we use the observations to study what these bodies are made of and how they were formed
By studying the ejecta made in the kinetic impact it is a key way of gaining further insights into the nature of its surface.
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Momentum transfer is one of the most important things we can measure, because it is information we would need to develop an impactor mission to divert a threatening asteroid.