AMMAN — NASA has given International
Astronomical Center (IAC) Chairman Mohammad Odeh a participation certificate
for an experiment testing humanity’s ability to prevent asteroids from crashing
into Earth by sending spaceships to change its orbit, Al-Ghad News reported.
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According to AFP, the NASA spaceship on Monday
successfully struck and deflected an asteroid seven million miles away. The
Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor hit its target, the space rock
Dimorphos, on Monday at 11:14 pm GMT, 10 months after blasting off from
California on its pioneering mission.
Although Dimorphos poses no threat to our planet as
it loops the Sun every two years, NASA has deemed the experiment important to
carry out before an actual need is discovered.
On Monday, Odeh told the Jordan News Agency, Petra,
that NASA had given him the participation certificate in preparation for the
mission, and that the IAC will participate in the analysis of the impact results.
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