Another asteroid just passed by Earth today! Know what NASA has to say.
Now then NASA successfully conducted its first planetary defense test against rogues small planet What is the barrier towards? The earth and create fear, the world can breathe a sigh of relief. However, NASA has not done so yet. NASA and other agencies will study DART data over the next few weeks to determine the details of the asteroid’s deviation, which will provide a better understanding of what happens when a spacecraft collided with space rock. But until then, we’re still not safe from asteroids, and one just passed Earth today.
Asteroid 2022 SZ
NASA has warned that a giant asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 SZ, has just passed by the planet. The asteroid made its closest approach to Earth in the early hours of today, September 29, at a distance of 5.2 million km. It flew over the planet at an amazing speed of 25200 km/h.
According to the-sky.org, Small planet 2022 SZ belongs to the Apollo asteroid group. The asteroid took 463 days to complete one orbit around the Sun, where its maximum distance from the Sun is 221 million km and the closest distance is 130 million km.
The past few months have seen a sudden increase in asteroid frequency.
Technology joins the DART . mission
The Didymos Asteroid and Reconnaissance Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO) along with the Small Mobile Automated Real-Time Navigation (SMART Nav) algorithms on the DART spacecraft allow it to distinguish between the larger Didymos and its target Dimorphos, hit the asteroid with pinpoint accuracy, according to NASA.
NASA’s first planetary defense effort was captured via the camera of a small companion satellite called cubeSAT LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids). The cube is made up of two main components, LUKE (LICIACube Unit Key Explorer) and LEIA (LICIACube Explorer Imaging for Asteroid), both of which collect important data from the collision.
