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The James Webb Space Telescope took just over a month to position and deploy, and since then it has been performing equipment calibration operations.

The few images that have been seen of it are to verify the capacity of the optics and the operation of the systems, the first color images will be seen on July 12, the date that will mark the beginning of its scientific operations, but lately it has been ordered the monitoring of a specific asteroid, is it a threat to earth?

The orbiting asteroid of Tenzing 6841 alone at a distance of almost 342 million kilometers, within the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter, is not a threat to us But it has served the technicians who operate the James Web Space Telescope to test a Little-known capacity of this telescope, because in addition to being able to detect exo planets and see the most distant universe, it is also capable of capturing objects within our terrestrial neighborhood.

With this asteroid, the James web demonstrates that it can track asteroids with high precision that may in the future pose a real threat to us, the web will thus be an essential piece of planetary defense, it is not that they are exclusively dedicated to discovering asteroids That tracking work will be done by other observatories both on the ground and in space, but when a new one is detected that is a potential danger to our planet, astronomers will then be able to focus the James web on it, in order to have a better view of it. track and calculate the parameters of the asteroid with a high precision.

In this way, to be able to know with time and the object is on a collision course with the earth or it will pass by, but what if they are on a collision course, then other planetary defense tools would come into play, such as rockets that launch ships to destroy or divert the asteroid. Although this part is not yet available, we still need to perfect the plans and carry out tests that provide data to the engineers to build the best possible weapons.

To obtain valuable data, NASA's Dart mission is underway, whose objective will be to hit the small Dimorphic asteroid that orbits a larger one called DiDimos, something that will occur in late September or early October of this year 2022, if all goes well. humans will be the first species in the history of this planet capable of avoiding one of the causes of mass extinction.

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