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Sezen Bakan

HISTORICAL FACTS: Nasa smashes asteroid threat and raises hopes on earth - Caught on Camera

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Tuesday, and it bodes well for the Earth.

As part of the US space agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a vending-machine-sized spacecraft travelling at more than 22,000km/h deliberately collided with Dimorphos, an asteroid with a diameter of about 170 metres.

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