Ahead of International Asteroid Day (June 30), scientists have released new simulations that show NASA’s DART asteroid defense test could work better than previously indicated. FOX13
The launch of a SpaceX rocket taking a NASA spacecraft to an asteroid was captured by a wildfire camera on November 23, with the bright flash briefly lighting up the nighttime footage.Double Asteroid Redirection Test asteroid defense mission in November of 2021, researchers in Switzerland created a simulation that predicts the method of deflecting a large asteroid away from Earth may work far better than previously believed.
"The asteroid could also be deflected much more strongly and larger amounts of material could be ejected from the impact than the previous estimates predicted," study authors said. Asteroid target morphologies after vertical and oblique DART-like impacts on spherical and ellipsoidal targets. Up to ~20% of the target material is displaced .
The spacecraft will cruise for over a year until it deliberately flies into the path of a binary near-Earth asteroid in space to change its motion, set for Sept. 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. ET, according to NASA.
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