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Sep 26 4 tweets 3 min read
NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth
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#BREAKING NASA spaceship strikes asteroid in landmark test of planetary defense: livestream Image
#UPDATE NASA's DART spaceship on Monday struck the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a cosmic object devastating life on Earth. Image
#UPDATE Bullseye.

A NASA spaceship has struck an asteroid seven million miles away from Earth in order to deflect its orbit.

It was a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on our planet.
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