How NASA will deflect asteroid by crashing DART spacecraft?
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How do we deal with an asteroid on course to hit the Earth? Well, one way is to change its direction. US space agency NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission plans to do exactly that. Launched in November last year, the project will use the "kinetic impactor" technique to deflect a near-Earth asteroid called Didymos and its orbiting moonlet Dimorphos.