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This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA spacecraft collides with asteroid

Asteroid and swarm of meteorites flying towards Earth (Getty Images/Mike Mareen)

NASA's asteroid deflection spacecraft

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