NASA launched the mission to hunt meteorites in 2019

Recently, the US space agency (NASA) has revealed more information about the mission of hunting and exploiting meteorites (ARM). One of the programs is to use automatic spaceships to tow the asteroids closer to Earth. Accordingly, the target asteroid will be selected by NASA one year before the "hunting" process and there are two options are given: bring an entire very small size object to or sample rock. from celestial bodies of large size. The NASA side added that the project will be officially launched before 2019 or even earlier.

Once the object has been "captured", it will be brought back to the Moon's orbit. At that time, NASA hoped this would allow astronauts to access the celestial body and conduct research more easily. Without so many problems, NASA claims that people will formally approach objects brought from the universe in the coming 2020s. Currently, the project is in the process of using Spitzer space telescopes to find and select candidate bodies. According to NASA information, in the first phase, the project mainly seeks and hunts objects for the study of the formation of the solar system.

Williams Gerstenmaier, manager of Human Exploration and Operations, said: "With the idea of ​​the research model above, we are taking the first steps to create money so that people can go deeper into space. We have made unprecedented strides with the closest goal of Mars, and the AMR mission is also studying projects to protect the Earth from the threat of meteorites from space. ".

Until now, researchers at NASA have found the 9 most valuable meteorites with the size and orbit perfectly suited to the project's criteria. Still, NASA's ongoing search work continues to extend the list of targeted objects. The most special of these is that the 2011 MD object has a low specific gravity (nearly equal to water) and its size is about 6.1 meters. As expected, this will be the first target of the ARM program in the future.

John Grunsfeld, NASA program scientist, said: "A closer study of celestial bodies is a challenge for us in the future. However, it will help protect our planet. At the same time, capturing and examining celestial bodies also allows us to study and understand more about the formation of the solar system in relation to the Earth itself. we".