Bungwe la US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) likufufuza kuthekera kokwaniritsa ntchito ya Athena yofufuza mlengalenga waukulu wotchedwa Pallas.
Chinthu chotchedwa chinthu chinapezeka mu 1802 ndi Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. Thupi, la lamba wamkulu wa asteroid, lili ndi kukula kwa 512 km kudutsa (kuphatikiza/kuchepetsa 6 km). Chifukwa chake, asteroid iyi ndiyotsika pang'ono kwa Vesta (525,4 km).
Lingaliro loyambitsa kafukufuku ku Pallas, malinga ndi magwero a pa intaneti, lipangidwa mkati mwa Epulo. Tikukamba za kupanga zida zofufuzira zocheperako, zofanana ndi kukula kwa firiji.
Ngati ntchitoyo ivomerezedwa, kafukufukuyu atha kukhazikitsidwa mu Ogasiti 2022. Malo okwerera azitha kufika pamlengalenga pafupifupi chaka chimodzi chikhazikitsidwe.
Zida zomwe zili m'bwalo la Athena zidzathandiza kufotokozera miyeso ya Pallas, komanso kujambula mwatsatanetsatane pamwamba pa chinthu ichi. Mtengo wopangira kafukufukuyu ukuyembekezeka kufika madola 50 miliyoni aku US.
Source: 3dnews.ru