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Asteroid Deflection Mission, Activate!

Short Wave

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Asteroid Redirection Test

Nasa is going to hit an asteroid with a spacecraft that's going 15 thousand miles per hour. The fancy name for it is a kinetic impactor inetic impactor test. It will be like ramming a golf cart into, like, the great pyramid. And this is expected to shorten the time the asteroid will then take to travel around its larger companion.

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