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NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from catastrophe
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Closer encounter: Nasa plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid travelling at 28,000mph | Astronomy | The Guardian
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This is a very silly, paranoid question. Is there any truth about an asteroid hitting Earth around 2030? - Quora
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Scientists reconstruct asteroid impact SIX TIMES bigger than the blast that wiped out the dinosaurs - and say it boiled oceans, burned the sky, and shook the earth for thirty minutes
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