China Asteroid Mission: There are thousands and thousands of such objects in our area, which may have an effect on our planet in the event that they collide with the Earth. The US area company NASA accomplished the DART mission final yr to discover a resolution to this downside. Beneath it, a spacecraft was collided with an asteroid, in order that in future any such downside may very well be eradicated earlier than it hits the Earth. Now China can be going to do the identical. It has additionally deliberate to collide with an asteroid. A craft might be collided with an asteroid and the rocks transferring in area might be studied. The mission could be accomplished by 2030.
In line with the report of Area.com and The Planetary Society, China has additionally chosen its goal. The China Nationwide Area Administration (CNSA) has its eyes on an asteroid named 2015 XF261. Its dimension is about 100 toes large.
In line with the database of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2015 XF261 final got here closest to Earth on Tuesday, July 9 this week. It handed at a distance of fifty million kilometers from our planet. Then its velocity was 42 thousand kilometers per hour.
What was America’s DART mission?
Within the yr 2022, the US area company NASA accomplished the DART mission. Beneath this, on September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Take a look at (DART) spacecraft intentionally collided with an asteroid named Dimorphos. By colliding, NASA wished to know whether or not this modifications the orbit of the asteroid or not. This mission was profitable. That’s, NASA has come to the conclusion that in future, after such collisions, the course of the asteroids could be modified and the asteroids that pose a menace to the Earth could be ‘faraway from the trail’. Now China additionally needs to do the identical.