The importance of the Dart Mission.
Souce nasa.gov
On September 26, the impact of the Dart mission ship against the dimorphic asteroid occurred almost 11 million kilometers from Earth, an asteroid that is between 160 - 170 meters in diameter and that orbits like a Moon to another largest called Didimos about 780 meters in diameter.
Souce nasa.gov
With the impact, what was exactly intended was to shorten the orbit of dimorphs by approximately 1% or 10 minutes, in this way the movement of the asteroid would be altered, but it would continue to orbit Didimos and both would continue to revolve around the sun without posing a risk to our planet, because it must be clarified that neither of the two asteroids posed a risk, they were just a target that had the ideal characteristics to carry out this test.
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If it occurs over the ocean or the desert, it would not be very problematic, but if a similar object hits a populated area, the disaster could be colossal and here we have a very serious problem, because the human population has multiplied, if at the beginning of the 20th century when the Tunguska event occurred we were about 1700 million humans today according to the UN the world population will reach 8 billion humans on November 15, 2022.
Souce nasa.gov
To avoid disaster there are many plans on paper and in the movies, but we need real data, we need engineers, astronomers, technicians who know what to do, who have experienced it and who have the right tools to carry out the planetary defense effectively, we must have a contingency plan, something that the dinosaurs did not have but neither did they have in Tunguska, nor in Chelyabinsk in 2013 and therefore it was necessary to carry out the Dart mission and other missions to come.
There are many asteroids out there..
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Maybe in the future, we will have powerful technologies to change the trajectory of an asteroid.
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