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NASA’s DART spacecraft sets sights on asteroid

Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos, is innocent. It's got no deal whatsoever with the Earth. In fact, it's not even close to being on a trajectory with our planet. But unfortunately for the moonlet, it was chosen by NASA as the test site for its first-ever planetary defense system.

 

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