NASA asteroid strike successful, results in big nudge, leaving long tail of debris
Cape Canaveral: A spacecraft that ploughed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of kilometres away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way. […]
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