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nuclear weapons. Hollywood's standard response to impending celestial objects like comets and asteroids is "that."

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The world is saved and the drama is supplied by Bruce Willis and other A-list actors in films like Deep Impact and Armageddon by the use of nukes.

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However, planetary security specialists assert that if astronomers discovered a potentially hazardous oncoming space object,

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The best and safest line of action could be to do something more subtly, like just slam a small spaceship into it to nudge it off track.

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That's exactly what NASA accomplished on Monday night when a spacecraft destroyed itself by crashing into an asteroid.

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They said that everything went as planned and that no mistakes were made. Our first planetary defence test, as best as we can determine, was successful.

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According to Elena Adams, the mission systems engineer, scientists watched as the spacecraft got closer to its goal with "both anxiety and delight."

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a 7-year project costing more than $300 million, reached its conclusion with the hit.

which carried out the first-ever test of planetary defence technology by launching a spacecraft in November 2021.

Move aside, To test planetary defence, NASA smashed into an asteroid

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