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Science News // 9 hours ago
NASA plans crashing spacecraft into asteroid to study Earth-impact defense
Nov. 5 (UPI) -- NASA plans to launch the DART spacecraft as early as Nov. 24 to crash it into an asteroid next year so scientists can try to understand how to redirect space objects away from potential catastrophic Earth collisions.
Effective deflection or wasted effort?