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Planetary defense test targeting harmless asteroid nearly 7 million miles from Earth

Name: Planetary defense test targeting harmless asteroid nearly 7 million miles from Earth
Uploaded: 2022-09-26T07:38:30-0400
Duration: 3 min 16 s
Description: A first-of-its-kind NASA mission aims to ram a spacecraft into a harmless asteroid Monday night. As Mark Strassmann reports, the method could someday be used to defend planet Earth.

A first-of-its-kind NASA mission aims to ram a spacecraft into a harmless asteroid Monday night. As Mark Strassmann reports, the method could someday be used to defend planet Earth.