NASA plans to hit an asteroid to change course in 2021

NASA is currently studying the possibility of modifying the orbit of an asteroid that could hit the Earth by attacking it early. This plan includes an 800-meter asteroid called didymos In 2021, in an attempt to change course, it was not didymos On track to collide with the ground, but it moves at 13,500 miles per hour.

If we hit the asteroid, this could result in massive extinction by projecting dust into the atmosphere and preventing the process of photosynthesis. It would not be good for us. NASA plans to hit the asteroid and a smaller body about 11 million kilometers from Earth.

Said Nancy Shabout, Global Scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and Project Scientist DART, For the site Space.com: "The cosmic defense will be around the solar system, and a plan will be put in place DART In 2021.