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Special test mission NASA: ‘billiards’ with asteroids that threaten the Earth | Inland

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‘Changing the course of heavenly bodies can prevent impacts’

Amsterdam – About 66 million years ago, our planet changed forever when an asteroid about ten kilometers in diameter struck the earth near Central America. The impact of the debris caused a mass extinction and the end of the dinosaurs. To protect our Earth against this kind of asteroid impacts, NASA will launch the promising DART mission on Wednesday, November 24, which is fired at rock lump Didymos.

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