NASA gaat asteroïde uit zijn baan knallen in planetaire verdedigingstest.
6 February 2019
13:03
”In what’s being touted as the first-ever test of a true planetary defense system, NASA has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) to try and knock an asteroid off course by slamming into it with a special probe traveling at roughly four miles per second. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) project involves targeting the asteroid known as Didymos and a much smaller rock that orbits it, deemed “Didymoon,” and essentially punching the latter off its course. Neither of these monster space rocks poses a threat to Earth — they’ll both be seven million miles away from the planet at their closest point — which is why they were chosen to serve as the test objects.”
