NASA continues to hunt for dangerous meteors

On October 2, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said it would continue the program to hunt for meteors that could crash into the earth despite the US government being closed.

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According to Space.com, on September 30, NASA announced that its agency's Near Earth (NEOO) Office would stop sending meteorological warning messages to the Twitter social networking site because the government was closed. . However, dangerous meteorite detection programs continue in the future.

NASA experts prepared ships to study the Martian atmosphere.Currently NASA is nearly paralyzed - (Photo: Reuters)

For example, NASA's Catalina Sky Survey project will continue to work in the coming days. The Catalina Sky Survey has found numerous celestial bodies near the earth in the last few years."The hunt will continue" - Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center, a big source of information about asteroids and asteroids, stressed.

Most American meteorite hunting projects are funded by NASA, but they also receive support from other sources. Therefore, Spahr said these programs will still work effectively, unless the US government is closed for too long.

Scientists studied images by the Catalina Sky Survey project or the Pan-STARRS telescope system and other NASA-based projects, but were not US federal government employees, so will continue to work even though the US government is closed.

However, most NASA employees had to sit home. Of the 18,000 NASA employees, only 550 continued to work, the rest had to take a break from work. NASA is still supporting astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), but many other important projects have been stalled, such as the project to launch the Mars atmospheric research on November 18.