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Space agencies from around the world are dedicated to develop techniques for protecting Earth from asteroids that pose a collision hazard.
In order to test possible asteroid deflection techniques, scientists intend to send a spacecraft to crash into the tiny moon of the distant asteroid named Didymos (nicknamed “Didymoon”) by 2022 to alter its trajectory.
This mission would be a first for scientists, and would test the capabilities of space agencies to divert rocks away from Earth’s orbit.
