Thomas Zurbuchen, Vice President of NASA, announced that all asteroids known to experts at the present time, none of them will collide with the planet within the next 100 years.
Zurbuchenen notes that NASA plans to launch the DART space probe to the asteroid Dimorph to collide with it in order to test Earth’s protection technology from asteroids in the future.
He says, “Rest assured, this asteroid now and in the future does not threaten the Earth. Also, all asteroids known today do not threaten to collide with the Earth during the next hundred years or so.”
He warns, “Scientists know only 40 percent of space objects that are larger than 140 meters in size. We have to search for the remaining 60 percent,” according to “rt”.
DART is scheduled to be launched by a Falcon 9 transport rocket on November 24, 2021, with the hope of hitting the asteroid Dimorph in September-October 2022.
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