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Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News

Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small spacecraft smashed into asteroid Didymos’ moonlet Dimorphos at a violent 14,000 mph, knocking it severely off course. But three years later, astronomers found …

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