
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Introduction
This week we're talking asteroids because of nassa's exciting dart mission. The idea was to try and knock an asteroid off its path by flying an uncreed spacecraft directly into it. Good news, they scored a direct hit. But we won't for a few weeks how much they change the asteroids trajectory. Trying to stop an asteroid hitting the earth sounds like the plot from a film, because, it is the plot to quite a few films. There's only one asteroid film, armor geddon, a film we love so much we made a programm about it in 20 16.
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