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They called it Dart acronym for Double asteroid River Action test the new NASA mission in English means arrow a spacecraft body from a base in California to crash into an asteroid at the speed of 24000 km / h target for the first time in absolute of a Celestial body. Dimorphus is the name of the unfortunate asteroid Largo 160 m orbits 11 million kilometers from our planet around it is not a danger to the earth, but it was chosen because it resembles a typical celestial body that could one day represent a threat. The mission will start in the autumn from the end of November, but it will take more than a year to reach the goal. If everything goes as calculated, the impact of the spacecraft will be like a sort of push and will slow down the orbit of dimorphus by 4 minutes.
It seems little, but astronomers clarify: fielded millions of kilometers from the earth it would be enough to increase the impact of a hypothetical dangerous body and to resume dinner there will also be a piece of Italy says close satellite of the Italian Space Agency will transmit the video of the crash.
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