NASA specialists will prepare for the collision of the conditional asteroid with the Earth. This is reported on the website of the organization.
Large-scale studies will conduct scientists of the laboratories of the reactive movement (JPL), which is part of the NASA. The teachings will allow National Department and Related Organizations in other countries to develop a plan that will help avoid clashes with celestial bodies or minimize damage from such incidents. The study will begin on April 26 – along with the opening of the event of the IAA Planetary Defense Conference – and will last within five days.
“every time we participate in the teachings of this kind, we learn more about who will be key figures in case of disaster,” said Lindley Johnson Planetary Protection Specialist (Lindley Johnson). According to the specialist, it is the preparation and consistency of the actions of the authorized bodies around the world will help to avoid disasters.
On April 26, participants in the IAA Planetary Defense Conference Conference must declare academic alarms informing about the dangerous convergence of the Earth and a certain asteroid. Within five days, experts will be planned to plan the trajectory of the celestial body and develop steps to eliminate the threat. According to scientists, in the future, such anxiety will be raised each time the probability of the collision of the Earth with a certain celestial body will be at least 1 to 100.
During the conference, the event participants will also discuss the launch of the DART Space Agency (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), which will be held until the end of 2021. With the help of DART NASA, it will test the possibility of using a kinetic blow to change the trajectory of asteroids.
In late February, it became known that an asteroid approached the Earth the size of the stadium. According to the NASA JPL Research Center, the asteroid diameter of 2020 XU6 is 213 meters. Scientists told that the object would fly at a distance of about four million kilometers from the planet.