Leonid Yelinin, a Russian astronomer and researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, declared that the effectiveness of impact methods asteroids It is an estimated distance of months or years from our planet before it reaches Earth that can be limited.
According to the site,RTIt is noteworthy that the American “NASA” agency announced that it has launched an investigation share As part of the “Diform” asteroid orbit change experiment. The purpose of launching the probe is to test the Earth’s protection system from dangerous space objects.
The probe is scheduled to meet the asteroid at 19:14 on September 26 EST (02:14 on September 27 Moscow time)..
The scientist said: “We have to understand that the strike will be rather weak, a kind of so-called ‘soft power’ when we have a slow and gradual change in the orbit of the dangerous asteroid. But if there is a possibility of a meeting after months or even years, this method will likely not work and will not help“.
The Russian scientist pointed out that such an experiment had been conducted before as part of an expedition deep effect When Comet 9 was bombedP / Lazy 1 With a probe weighing 370 kilograms, it explodes on its surface and helps study the composition of this space object..
It is worth noting that the probe’s collision with the “warp” asteroid, which is orbiting another larger asteroid and around the sun, is expected to deviate “deformation” from its orbit by less than one degree..