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The asteroid, Dimorphos, is the size of a stadium and is about 7 million miles from Earth at the moment. It orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos. Neither poses a threat to our planet now or anytime in the foreseeable future. https://t.co/4QenqRzOku — PolitiTweet.org

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NASA managed to crash a small spacecraft directly into an asteroid, a 14,000-mile-per-hour collision designed to test whether such a technology could be deployed to protect against a potentially catastrophic impact by an object from outer space. https://t.co/4QenqRzOku https://t.co/XumU27IIh3 — PolitiTweet.org

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This was just a test, NASA’s first demonstration of a potential planetary defense technique, called a kinetic impactor. The idea is to give a hypothetically dangerous asteroid just enough of a blow to alter its orbital trajectory. https://t.co/4QenqRRpc2 — PolitiTweet.org

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