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Nothing to do with ben aflac or drills. joining us is after the ro physicist of the american museum of natural history and welcome to the universe, a pocket-size tour, neil's, pleasure to see you as always, can you explain what this mission is trying to do? and why? >> well, you have to sort of know the structure of the solar system. we have mercury, venus, earth, mars and there is a gap before you get to jupiter. in that gap is countless asteroids. most of them are. a sub set have a wayward orbit that brings them close to the orbit of the earth. in some cases they cross the orbit of the earth...

So let's all just use our imaginations, 'kay? just imagine me someplace festive no, no, don't make it weird. so why not smash into an asteroid on purpose? nasa has launched its first ever planetary mission, it's called the dark mission, for the dark asteroid redirection and it has nothing to do with ben aflac or drills. joining us is after the ro physicist of the american museum of natural history and welcome to the universe, a pocket-size tour, neil's, pleasure to see you as always, can you explain what this mission is trying to do? and why? >> well, you have to sort of