Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2022
NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit
NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit
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