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NASA DART launches on collision course to redirect an asteroid [i]After billions of years of asteroids impacting Earth, NASA has taken its first step to strike back. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on Wednesday (Nov. 24) will slam into a small space rock — the "moonlet" of a larger asteroid — to slightly knock it off course. The target, Dimorphos, poses no risk to Earth, but changing its orbit will test technologies and generate data to improve our capabilities when the next asteroid is discovered heading toward us.[/i]
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