NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid

 On Monday, September 26, 2022, NASA crashed a small spacecraft into an asteroid. The key objective of this intentional collision was to test whether a similar technology could someday be deployed to protect the Earth from catastrophic impacts. The name of this asteroid was Dimorphos. As claimed in his article " NASA crashes spacecraft into an asteroid, passing planetary defense test" Joel Achenbach states that the asteroid was the size of a stadium. NASA seeks to develop a planetary defense technique that will further prevent kinetic bodies from attacking the Earth. The spacecraft that was launched from California was rather small in comparison to size. It was about the size of a vending machine. No significant structural change was noted upon the impact of the spacecraft. However small collisions could prove to show changes in asteroids' orbit and thus protect Earth from future impacts. In my opinion, NASA has proved to show with significant research how kinetic bodies in space can be manipulated to avoid impact on the surface of the Earth.

Aryan Shah

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/09/26/nasa-dart-mission-asteroid-crash/