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NASA launches ‘suicide’ spacecraft to kick asteroid off course – Aljazeera.com

DART probe, the size of a car, will slam into the Dimorphos ‘moonlet’ at more than 24,000kph in 2022.

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NASA launched a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid a test-run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth.
It may sound like science fiction, but the DART Double Asteroid Redirection Test is…

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