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NASA's Dart mission: First-ever attempt at planetary defence results in collision with an asteroid

NASA created history at 7:14 p.m. EDT by ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid.

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the first instance in which a celestial body's trajectory has been changed by life on Earth.

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Dart, a NASA spacecraft designed to test double asteroid redirection, struck the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,400 mph.

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Just a few minutes before, the Dart spacecraft's cameras captured a small grey smear.

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One day, a spaceship like Dart may redirect potentially fatal asteroid strikes like the ones that wiped off the dinosaurs and shield Earth from such dangers.

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It was Launched in November 2021,travelled for months until its final encounter with Dimorphos, which was 6.8 million miles from Earth.

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directing itself into the depths of space, and then into a tiny asteroid, around the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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