However, a team of scientists led by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the United States Analyzed in detail the scientific and engineering data after the accident. In the weeks following DART’s Dimorphos crash, it focuses on measuring the momentum transfer from a collision with a target asteroid at a speed of 22,530 kilometers per hour. The team estimates that the DART crash ejected more than 1 million kilograms of rock dust into space. By comparison, they would be like six or seven full railroad cars. With this information, the team also gained new insights into the composition of the asteroid Dimorphos. Characteristics of the speed and motion of the expelled oxygen cloud, obtained with telescope observations and images from the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) within the DART mission.
Scientists have revealed that momentum transfer is one of the most important things that can be measured. Because it’s the information needed to develop the Impactor’s mission. To send deflecting asteroids that have the right to threaten the world. Understand how space collisions change the momentum of an asteroid. It is therefore crucial for designing mitigation strategies for global defense scenarios.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
