Greatest Discovery Technology: Scientists of the Russian Federation has proposed to launch a telescope to observe asteroids from the Sun

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Scientists of the Russian Federation has proposed to launch a telescope to observe asteroids from the Sun – TASS

GENEVA, 2 February. /TASS/. Russian scientists have proposed to launch a telescope at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres from Earth to monitor asteroids near Earth from the Sun. On Thursday said the scientific Director of the Institute of astronomy, Boris Shustov during the scientific conference “Physics of space”, which takes place on the basis of the Kourovka astronomical Observatory. K. A. Barkhatovoy in the Sverdlovsk region.

“the Chelyabinsk event (the meteorite “Chelyabinsk” – approx. TASS) clearly showed that any means – neither the land nor the earth at low and medium orbits – it is impossible to detect the body, which is coming from the Sun. Optical telescopes are in this situation, blind, and radios operate over short distances – a few thousand kilometers, we need to detect the dangerous body to a substantially greater distance so as to have time to warn the population and to specify the area of the lesion is possible only with the help of the camera placed far away from Earth. A group of Russian scientists proposed to place this telescope in the field of so-called Lagrange point L1 is an area that is between the Earth and the Sun at a distance of 1.5 million km from our planet,” he said.

Pasha said that the body placed in this area will follow the Ground with only small deviations. “There have long been companions, but they mostly look at the Sun, and we proposed to place the apparatus that would be looking at the vicinity of the Earth, then body which will fly from the Sun, will be well lit. In this case, rather small telescope with a diameter of 30 cm to locate the bodies larger than 10 m us to prevent that is enough”, he added.

He also said that the project was called “SODA – detection System, daytime asteroids”. “We will put the proposal on the international court of justice. In may, the conference on planetary protection in Tokyo, and the Russian delegation there certainly will be,” explained Pasha.

the Meteorite “Chelyabinsk” entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 15 February 2013 at about 07:10 Moscow time, it caused a strong explosion in the atmosphere at an altitude of 23 km and the fall of numerous fragments on a large area of the Chelyabinsk region. The explosion was observed by hundreds of thousands of people in the Urals and in Northern Kazakhstan. The largest fragments of the celestial body fell near lake Chebarkul, 78 km West of Chelyabinsk. From the blast in the hundreds of thousands of houses in Chelyabinsk and the surrounding area has been embossed glass.

the Conference “space Physics” has more than 45-year history. The main topics of the conference the latest achievements in the field of studying objects in the Solar system, physics of stars, stellar systems, interstellar medium, physics of Galaxies, near-earth space, relativistic objects in the Universe. This year it will end February 2, it will be attended by 163 astronomer from Munich, Moscow, St. – Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-don, village Nauchny (Crimea) and other cities.

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