Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results inside large nudge

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded inside shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday inside announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

The space agency attempted the trial set of two weeks ago to see if inside the future a murderer go to and fro could exist nudged not here of Earth's way.

"This task shows that NASA is trying to exist prepared for whatever the cosmos throws at us," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said throughout a briefing at NASA headquarters inside Washington.

The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris not here into space with every one other accompanied by creating a cometlike series of fine powder with every one other accompanied by rubble stretching some thousand miles (kilometers). It took days of telescope observations from Chile with every one other accompanied by South Africa to determine how a a large amount of the impact altered the footpath of the 525-foot (160-meter) asteroid around its companion, a a a large amount of bigger space rock.

Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours with every one other accompanied by 55 minutes to ring its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes nevertheless Nelson said the impact shortened the asteroid's orbit by concerning 32 minutes.

The amount of debris apparently played a part inside the outcome, scientists said. The impact may too have left-hand Dimorphos wobbling a bit, said NASA program researcher Tom Statler. That may affect the orbit, nevertheless it will never go spine to its first orbit, he noted.

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Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth — with every one other accompanied by still don't while they carry on accompanied by their journey around the sun. That's why scientists picked the set of two for the world's earliest try to alter the position of a celestial body.

Planetary protection experts like better nudging a menacing asteroid or comet not here of the way, specified sufficient lead time, by preference than blowing it up with every one other accompanied by creating multiple pieces that could rainfall down on Earth.

"This is spectacular that we've taken this earliest step ... nevertheless we really need to too have that warning hour dated for a procedure exist fond of this to exist effective," said task leader Nancy Chabot of Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, which built the spacecraft with every one other accompanied by managed the $325 million mission.

"You've got to know they're coming," said NASA's Lori Glaze.

Launched last year, the vending machine-size Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — was destroyed when it slammed into the asteroid 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) away at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph).

"We've been imagining this for years with every one other accompanied by to have it eventually exist real is really completely a thrill," said Statler.

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