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Oh my gosh! whoo! >> oh, wow! >> reporter: the nasa crew and scientists around the world celebrated the culmination of a grueling journey live. >> fantastic! >> oh, fantastic. >> d.a.r.t.'s mission, the first of its kind, was to test technological capabilities to protect humanity from hazardous asteroids or other deadly objects in space. >> to see it so beautifully concluded today was just an incredible feeling. and also, very tiring. >> reporter: the d.a.r.t. spacecraft was about the size of a refrigerator. its target asteroid, demorphous is about the height of the washington monument. over t...

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Paediatric neurosurgeon Jose 'Jett' Aguilar is also an avid astronomer

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PCI), one of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), will swoop past Earth next week, and it is really massive.

Experts revealed 2020 XU6 will zoom by at more than 10 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The distance between our planet and its lunar satellite - known as a lunar distance (LD) - stands at more than 380,000 kilometres. Asteroid 2020 XU6 will pass Earth at 10.7 LDs. According to NASA, that is still a close enough distance for the asteroid to be considered a 'near Earth object' (NEO). The definition of a NEO in astronomical terms is any small solar system body which comes within 1.3 astronomical units (AU) of the Earth. Asteroid 2-times size of Big Ben to pass Earth- NASA trac...