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New results from NASA’s DART planetary defence mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. What would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect it safely to prevent the impact? Last year, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission tried to find out…