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Interview: NASA's plan to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid
Episode 148

Interview: NASA's plan to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid

Could humanity deflect the path of a civilisation-destroying asteroid?

Star Diary · BBC Sky at Night Magazine

September 23, 202224m 41s

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Show Notes

Could humanity deflect the path of a civilisation-destroying asteroid? That's what NASA's DART mission hopes to find out by crashing into an asteroid.

Ahead of the impact on 26th September at 11:14pm UTC, we spoke with the mission's co-ordination team lead Nancy Chabot about the mission.

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