A school teacher and his students have discovered that Dimorphos has slowed down by approximately two more minutes than NASA's last reported number.
DART is a NASA mission designed to test asteroid deflection technology. Its main objective is to show that we can use a kinetic impactor technique to alter the trajectory of an asteroid.
The primary goal of DART was to hit the Didymos binary asteroid system and its moonlet, known as Dimorphos. The main target, Dimorphos, has a diameter of about 525 feet , whereas Didymos, which is larger, has a diameter of around 2,560 feet . Scientists stipulated that they could evaluate the success of the kinetic impactor technique by aiming for the smaller moonlet.
According to NASA, Dimorphos would complete one orbit around Didymos in 11 hours and 55 minutes prior to the impact event. Ground measurements taken post impact revealed that the orbital period had been shortened by 32 minutes, or 11 hours and 23 minutes. This is equivalent to Dimorphos moving "tens of metres" closer to Didymos., a teacher and his students appear to have discovered that Dimorphos' orbit has continued slowing down since the now famous crash.
Two scenarios could be happening here. One of the calculations may be wrong or the celestial object may still be slowing down. If the case is the second, it means that NASA has achieved its goal.: "We tried our best to find the crack in what we had done, but we couldn’t find anything." Swift’s finding will now be published in a paper in theMeanwhile, NASA will be releasing a report on the results of the DART mission.
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