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Astroids out of earth's orbit. the right time to deflect ans a trois is as far away from the earth as we can. who better to talk than bill nye, ceo of the planetary society, also known as the science guy. bill, great to see you tonight in an area of deep expertise for you. let's talk about this. what is this -- what is the aim here that we're going to deflect asteroids headed for earth so that they miss us? >> so everybody, just when i was a kid nobody had a good hypothesis as to what happened to the ancient dinosaurs, but now we do. the last 30 years or so, people realize it was almost certai...

The collision and send them back to earth. they will use telescopes to observe how much the impact changed the astroid's trajectory in space. the point is to add this diversion method to keep astroids out of earth's orbit. to quote nasa's defense planetary officer linda johnson, the right time to deflect an asteroid is as far away from the earth as we can. who better to talk than bill nye, ceo of the planetary society, also known as the science guy. great to see you tonight in an area of deep expertise for you. let's talk about this. what is this -- what is the aim here that we're going to def...

Method, this diversion method to their strategy to keep asteroids out of earth's orbit. to quote masses planetary defense officer, the right time to deflect an asteroid is as far away from the earth as we can. what who better to talk than bill nye, ceo of the planetary society, also known as the science guy. bill, thanks to see. you will in an area of deep expertise for. you let's talk about. this what is the aim here that we are going to deflect asteroids had ever earth so that the misses? >> yes. so when i was a kid nobody had a good hypothesis of what happened to the h&m disorders. but now ...

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch this week. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 1:20 a.m. EST on November 24 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

"We want to test this technique so that if and when we discover an asteroid … we have this tool in our belt and we are ready to go.”