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How To Stop a (Potentially Killer) Asteroid

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The Impact of the Asteroid Dart on the Earth

Dart was this $330 million spaceship the size of a golf cart and it was completely obliterated by this asteroid in a matter of near microseconds. Scientists seem pretty confident that this was a you know smashing success, but what else would we need in order to ensure that any more dangerous Asteroids headed for the earth don't obliterate us? What we really need to have is better situational awareness How many of these objects are out there? What are they made of? Where are they and who's working on that now? Lots of different people the keys to get a catalog of different sizes of objects They're different orbits maybe even what they're made of and figure out which ones are the

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