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Ten richest men more than doubles, climbing a collective $1.3 billion per day. central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial markets to save the economy. that set off a stock market boom lining the pockets of billionaires. oxfam said it's not by chance, it's by choice and governments should tax those gains and use the money to fund health care, vaccines and to address the climate crisis. >> that is revealing. all right, christine, get ready for this. an asteroid nearly missing the earth. it may sound like the plot of a farfetched movie from the late '90s. >> if this comet continue...

Hit. cnn's tyler malden is here to show us. all right, tyler, we're told it will not hit. help us calm down about this. >> yeah, you're right, guys. it's not going to hit us. everyone can calm down. asteroid 2k 22 continues t-minus 11 hours until it makes that close approach to earth. again, you don't have to worry about it, but if you do have a small telescope, you can peek this asteroid as it passes by earth. this is the closest it's been to earth since 1933, and it's not going to be this close until about 200 years from now. it is jetting through space. it is moving at about 44,000 miles pe...

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Momentum of the pushed-off stuff would push the asteroid. that may work. but even simpler and more straightforward is just hitting the asteroid with something very small but going very, very fast. dart, double asteroid redirection test, is going about four miles a second. four miles a second. >> wow. >> so it has a lot of momentum. so when we hit this smaller asteroid, we are very hopeful that it will give it a nudge. now, the composition of the asteroids is not exactly known. so they're so-called xk asteroids. so we're hoping, or we're confident that when we hit it with this d.a.r.t. spacecra...

So this didamos binary asteroid, ditamos and bimorphous, if you're into happy naming, is an asteroid where you have an asteroid that has a wide center like this double strawberry and then you have another asteroid going around it like the blueberry. so if you can hit the blueberry with a spacecraft, like these strawberry leaves, then you can slow this smaller asteroid down ever so slightly, ever so slightly, and then when an object is closer to the -- when a smaller object is closer to the larger object, it will go around faster. that's why, for example, mercury goes around the sun much faster...