Nasa spacecraft ‘changed path of asteroid’ in ‘watershed moment’ for defending Earth

Nasa spacecraft ‘changed path of asteroid’ in ‘watershed moment’ for defending Earth

‘Dart felt like a movie plot but this was not Hollywood’ experts said today (Picture: Getty Images)
A Nasa spacecraft, roughly the size of a refrigerator, has successfully knocked an asteroid off course.
The news was announced in a briefing in Washington on Tuesday.
Experts spoke of how the Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26.
It hurled debris into space…

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