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How To Stop a (Potentially Killer) Asteroid

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Join our discord because you're gonna love it every week have battles events even Possibility of you actually winning your championship and coming to worry about defending it. Last September NASA's double asteroid Redirection test or dart a spacecraft the size of a golf cart smashed into a small asteroid called dimorphos Actually, all trains trajectory around another asteroid called Diddymo's in our first ever test of planetary defense Hail does a no pun intended smashing success No less than five studies in the scientific journal nature get into the nitty gritty of how exactly our celestial gut punch worked What a moment where do you work somebody capture this moment? This is beautiful to walk I'm to leak a bow Lee Billings

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