CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -In November 2021, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission, shooting a refrigerator-size spacecraft toward a small asteroid. Scientists had created DART to destroy the spacecraft.

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA’s planetary defense strategy involves detecting and tracking these objects using telescopes on the ground and in space. In fact, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, or CNEOS, monitors all known near-Earth objects to assess any impact risk they may pose.

Detailed explanation-3: -DART asteroid impact DART successfully slammed into Dimorphos on Sept. 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT) in what the U.S. space agency has billed as the world’s first planetary defense test.

Detailed explanation-4: -An asteroid on a trajectory to impact Earth could not be shot down in the last few minutes or even hours before impact. No known weapon system could stop the mass because of the velocity at which it travels – an average of 12 miles per second.