called Didymos.... The pair are no danger to Earth but offer scientists a way to measure the

, if needed, to protect Earth.... Dimorphos and Didymos do not pose an actual threat to Earth. The

65803 Didymos....

next year, called Didymos and Dimorphos, to test the Earth's best-and likely only-means of

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The space agency's Dart mission is set to launch at 6. 21am on Wednesday and could one day save the world from an Earth-bound asteroid by bashing it off-course.... The spacecraft will crash into an object called Dimorphos to assess how much its speed and path can be altered in what could prove to be a life-saving mission for future threats.... But Pulsar Fusion CEO Richard Dinan believes there might be a better way of preserving humanity that could eradicate any fears over an apocalyptic-spark

This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding.... Jewitt said: “ The boulder cloud will still be dispersing when Hera arrives.... It’s like a very slowly expanding swarm of bees!...

A Nasa mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid — a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth — blasted off on Tuesday from California.It may sound like science fiction, but the DART( Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment, which lifted off at 10: 21pm Pacific Time on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.“ Asteroid Dimorphos: we're coming for you!... ” Nasa tweeted af

" I'm not any more concerned about Bennu than I was before.... But the area of devastation is going to be much, much broader than that, as much as 100 times the size of the crater," she explained.... But they also chose it in part because Bennu is what is known as a near-Earth asteroid....

The bright white object at lower left is the asteroid Dimorphos, with a bluish dust tail extending diagonally to the upper right.... We know quite a lot about the impact," he continued.... " And then the idea is to look at the consequences of a well-calibrated impact to see how the asteroid responds." Jewitt added this will be something the European Space Agency's upcoming Hera mission will investigate....