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¡Igual que en ‘Armageddon’! NASA estrellará nave contra un asteroide

Misión probará capacidad de evitar que asteroides impacten en la Tierra

(FILES) This file artist's illustration obtained from NASA on November 4, 2021 shows the DART spacecraft from behind prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. - NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. (Photo by Handout / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO  /NASA/Johns Hopkins APL'" -" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
(FILES) This file artist's illustration obtained from NASA on November 4, 2021 shows the DART spacecraft from behind prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. - NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. (Photo by Handout / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /NASA/Johns Hopkins APL'" -" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HANDOUT

La NASA intentará el lunes una hazaña que la humanidad nunca antes ha logrado: estrellar deliberadamente una nave espacial contra un asteroide para desviar ligeramente su órbita, una prueba clave para demostrar la capacidad de evitar que los objetos cósmicos destruyan la vida en la Tierra.

La misión DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) se lanzó desde California en noviembre y se acerca rápidamente a su objetivo, al que impactará a unos 23.000 kilómetros por hora.

Para que sea seguro, ni el asteroide Dydimos ni Dimorphos, el pequeño asteroide que lo orbita, representan una amenaza, ya que ambos giran alrededor del Sol, pasando a miles de millones de kilómetros de la Tierra. Pero este experimento es considerado importante por la NASA, que quiere realizarlo antes de que exista una necesidad real.

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