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NASA Hails $325 Million Asteroid-Busting Dart Spacecraft Mission
NASA officials have claimed Monday’s mission that slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to test future planet-saving operations was a success, although it will take two months to determine the exact effect the impact had.
A harmless 5 billion kg 160m-wide asteroid 7 million miles from earth was rammed by NASA’s vending machine-sized Dart spacecraft at 14,000mph with the aim of altering the space rock’s course.
Planetary defense experts claim fewer than 1% of millions of smaller asteroids, and far less than half of the 25,000 near-Earth 140m+ objects. have been discovered.
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NASA officials have claimed Monday’s mission that slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to test future planet-saving operations was a success, although it will take two months to determine the exact effect the impact had.
A harmless 5 billion kg 160m-wide asteroid 7 million miles from earth was rammed by NASA’s vending machine-sized Dart spacecraft at 14,000mph with the aim of altering the space rock’s course.
Planetary defense experts claim fewer than 1% of millions of smaller asteroids, and far less than half of the 25,000 near-Earth 140m+ objects. have been discovered.
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