NASA confirms 1,000lb meteorite slammed into Texas
The latest meteorite events occurred just as the European Space Agency announced a new mission to detect risky asteroids hidden by the Sun. The NEOMIR mission, scheduled for launch in 2030, will send up a telescope to monitor space rocks near the Sun in infrared light that are invisible from the ground on Earth.
"Asteroids 20 metres and larger that are heading toward Earth should be detected by NEOMIR at least three weeks in advance," ESAin a statement."In the worst-case scenario, in which the asteroid is spotted passing near the spacecraft, we would get a minimum of three days' warning." Research is also underway developing radar technology to scan asteroids in space to measure their size, composition, and speed. Astronomers building the Next Generation RADAR system at the Green Bank Telescope reported"results that were beyond expectations" last month at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society,The ngRADAR system beams radio waves from a large network of radio telescopes across the US and the Virgin Islands to hunt for asteroids.
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