>"A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test lifted off at 10:21 _...Read More_

CNN: NASA will launch mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change it's motion in space. >"A NASA spacecraft that will _...Read More_

" The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought."

Space agencies around the world took part in the simulation that ended with the asteroid crashing into eastern Europe.

There is also a pragmatic reason to visit Ryugu. NASA researchers have identified it as a potentially hazardous asteroid, which means its orbit comes close enough to Earth to create a non-negligible chance of collision. While the risk is _...Read More_

>"The near-earth object with its massive size and close proximity, however, has no chance of _...Read More_

>"An asteroid the size of a jumbo jet will have a close encounter with Earth today (Sept. 1), zooming past our planet at about one-third the average distance to the _...Read More_

m"Well, 2020 just keeps getting better all the time."

>"The asteroid won't be officially named until NASA confirms its orbit."

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