The Importance of Changing Asteroid Orbit

It would probably be a terrible idea to try and blow up an incoming asteroid. Do you remember this thing called the NASA Dart spacecraft? Yes. And they wanted to see, could we change its orbit around its parent body? Right. So if we do spot one of these incoming asteroids, the plan is to fire this dark thing at it. Early as early as possible. And then change its course. Change its trajectory. It's like trying to throw a baseball at something on the other side of the country. If you're off by a tiny fraction of a degree, you're going to be like that millions of miles wide. Well, in our again, though, they didn't want