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NASA's DART mission is about to practice deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't protect us if it doesn't spot an incoming rock.

Despite the delay with the planned launch of Artemis 1, Nasa remain optimistic that the mission will be under way shortly, with Friday September 2…

The asteroid, which is about a half-mile wide, has been studied by scientists for decades and will stay about 1.2 million miles away from Earth.

THE NEED FOR A NEAR EARTH PLANETARY DEFENSE SYSTEM

NASA is testing a method it could one day use to save Earth from a city-killing asteroid. Ramming a probe into a space rock could nudge it away.

They say no, theres too much pollution. well take a cab. >> reporter: despite some measures to fight smog, the increasing pollution makes the sight of a clear sky still a distant dream. okay, still to come here for us, saving the earth from armageddon. im not kidding. nasa is trying out some new technology to try and protect the earth from potentially devastating asteroid impacts. youll want to see this.

NASA may one day need to save Earth from an incoming asteroid. The plan: launching a spacecraft to nudge away space rocks.

NASA has led seven such simulations, and the participants only fully stopped the asteroid once. It shows how challenging it would be to stop an Earth-bound space rock, even with ample warning. An international group of space experts have been bested by a hypothetical asteroid. Again. In a planetary-defense simulation that NASA led last month, more than 200 participants from about two dozen countries learned that a fictitious space rock was set to strike Earth in six months. They put their heads...

With each passing day of the exercise, the participants learned more about the asteroids size, trajectory, and chance of impact. Then they had to cooperate and use their technological knowledge to see if anything could be done to stop the space rock. The experts fell short. The group determined that none of Earths existing technologies could stop the hypothetical asteroid from striking given the six-month timeframe of the simulation. In this alternate reality, the asteroid crashed into eastern ...

Myhrvold was the long-time chief technology officer at microsoft, trained in physics by stephen hawking, and is a true polymath with interests ranging from physics to food and everything in between. he and his team at intellectual ventures have been working on everything from nuclear power to stopping asteroids from hitting the earth. its commonly believed that asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs. but myhrvold says asteroid impacts are not just ancient history. take a listen. >> you dont think we ...