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Was last years NASA test to push a potential planet-killing asteroid away from Terra Prime even more successful than previously thought?

Thacher School students in California used their own research-grade observatory to track Diomorphos asteroid after last year’s DART collision and found some unexpected results.

The world had a front-row seat Monday evening as NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see if it can move the rock, a method that will come in handy should a planet-killing asteroid ever come hurtling toward Earth.

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The world had a front-row seat Monday evening as NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see if it can move the rock, a method that will come in handy should a planet-killing asteroid ever come hurtling toward Earth.

Team are testing, for the first time, the concept that hitting an asteroid with a spacecraft could modify the asteroid's orbit.