Spacecraft Launched by NASA - Dart

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Santshe nassa has released the spacecraft, and it's going to hunt down an asteroid orbiting another asteroid. The craft will smash into that asteroid and see if it can change its orbit. Release te they're sety playing space billiards and seeing if it works. This is a car sized spacecraft that's really going to hit this moonlit with quite a lot of momentum.

Scientists are constantly searching for asteroids that could crash into Earth. But if they find one, will they be able to do anything about it? NASA has launched a spaceship that will slam into an asteroid to find out.

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