Detecting, tracking and stopping asteroids is a sprawling, interconnected effort.
At the International Astronautical Congress 2022 in Paris, representatives from NASA; the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , which manages the mission; the European Space Agency and
The European Space Agency will launch a follow-up surveyor mission in 2024, called Hera, arriving at the Didymos system in 2026. That spacecraft will fully investigate the pair of space rocks to determine the effects of the impact, Patrick Michel, the principal investigator for Hera at the French Scientific Research National Center , said at the panel discussion.
Instead, it is asteroids from roughly tens to hundreds of meters across that are hard to detect and largely unaccounted for. Rocks of this size impact the Earth much more frequently and can cause local and even regional damage and inflict mass casualties. The 2013that exploded over Russia, for instance was not spotted until it entered the atmosphere.
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