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Real-life Deep Impact: NASA will intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid at 15,000mph TODAY - and the method could one day save Earth from a deadly impact
  • The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is due to collide with an asteroid at 19:14 ET (00:14 BST, Tuesday)

  • NASA's first 'planetary defence' craft will try to deflect asteroid Dimorphos, which is 6.8 million miles from us

  • $325 million mission may sound like the plot of Hollywood blockbuster such as Armageddon or Deep Impact

  • But it could prove useful for altering the course of an asteroid years or decades before it bears down on Earth

Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-26
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=645108