Introductionto the 2023 PDC impact scenario: A new near-Earth asteroid is detected on January 10, 2023 by an international team using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program funded by the National Science Foundation. The team was searching in the twilight Aninternational exercise to simulate an asteroid striking Earth has come to an end. With just six days to go before a fictitious impact, things don’t look good for a 185-mile-wide region Asimulation by the Discovery Channel has provided a visual scenario to take us through it. According to the video's description box , these are the details: "An asteroid with a diameter of 500 km Oneside of the moon is littered with far more craters than the other, and researchers finally know why: A massive asteroid that slammed into the moon around 4.3 billion years ago wreaked havoc in TheNASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23:14 UTC on 26 September 2022 Researcherssimulate defense of the Earth against asteroid impact. by University of Bern. Two-dimensional slices (taken at y = 0 in the x–z plane) showing possible asteroid morphologies after The9th column shows asteroids remaining in the simulation, and column 10 shows the probability of an Earth collision for the asteroids that have an outcome. Credit: Martin et al. 2022 Even simulating the effect of a nuclear device's X-rays on an approximate, highly-simplified, spherical asteroid could consume weeks of precious time. A faster and more versatile method of .

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