Before the impact Dimorphos took 11 hours and 55 minutes to revolve around another larger asteroid called Didymos. The spacecraft managed to reduce that orbit by 32 minutes.
Euskaraz irakurri: NASA: “Dimorphos asteroidearen ibilbidea desbideratu du DART misioak”
NASA said on Tuesday that the impact of his dart ship against the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos, located about 11 million kilometers from Earth, managed to divert its trajectory, as was its objective.
The administrator of the American space agency, bill nelsonhas pointed out that before the impact Dimorphos took 11 hours and 55 minutes to revolve around another larger asteroid called Didymos, with which it forms what is known as a double asteroid system.
The spacecraft managed to reduce that orbit by 32 minutes: “It would have been a success if it had only shortened it by about 10 minutes, but in fact it reduced it by 32 and changed its trajectory,” he said, congratulating himself on the result of that planetary defense mission carried out in September. .
Dimorphos’s orbit has now moved about ten meters closer to Didymos and the resulting change in its trajectory is permanent.
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