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Mission to land on the double asteroid is all set to happen in November. Dubbed as ‘mountain in the sky with another rock the size of the Great Pyramid swinging around it’, is first-ever mission involving the act of a team of astronauts landing on an asteroid to destroy it. ESA said in a statement said the mission will “revolutionise our understanding of asteroids and how to protect ourselves from them”. The heart-stopping mission has been called Hera.

King revealed that nuclear bombs could be used only as a last resort to save planet earth

Massive asteroid danger to Earth: NASA to strike Didymos asteroid with a rocket - The mission is called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) and its target is hazardous near-earth binary asteroid Didymos.

Top space experts including Dr Iain McDonald and physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson believe that devastating asteroid hits are not confined to the past

The research report suggested that nuking an approaching asteroid could be one of the best methods to minimize the damage on the planet