Washington The first NASA Asteroid Spacecraft for Defense, used to divert an asteroids 1.9 million kilometers away from Earth and will strike the space rock in the night on September 26.
Its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched out into the universe in November of last year. Following the journey of around an entire year, it is about to meet with a tiny Asteroid known as Dimorphus at 24140 kilometers per hour. The asteroid is centered around a massive asteroid known as Didymos.
The Roma-based Virtual Telescope Project, together with other observatories located within South Africa, will show the asteroid of the target as it comes into contact.
Prior to that, the two most powerful telescopes confirmed Didymos orbit was aligned with US satellite agency’s Dart craft following six nights of observation. The observations confirmed the orbit measurements to be conducted in 2021. Who was
The observations were taken in July by an instrument called the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona as well as in Chile with the Magellan Telescope in Chile.
Andy Rivkin, co-leader of the Dart Investigation Team from Johns Hopkins University The measures the team took in the early 2021 period helped guide Dart to the correct position and time to make contact in the direction of the dimorphs. They were crucial.
“The confirmation of those measurements with new observations suggests that we don’t need to change anything and that we are moving in the right direction to pursue the goal,” He said.
Didymos And Dimorphs will orbit near Earth at the distance from 1.8 million kilometers during the month of September of this year.
The spacecraft was built for 32.5 million dollars The 548.8 kg spacecraft is designed to alter its speed by 10th of its speed through smashing it by dimorphs.
Asteroid collision is scheduled to be observed on September 27 around 4:14 am Pakistan time.
