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Spotlights illuminate the Saturn V booster rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts, on December 19, 1968. AP

A rendering of the Psyche asteroid

Hills are covered with fallen and burnt trees after a meteorite hit in 1908. Getty

People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. AP

People standing near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in central Russia. AFP

A meteorite trail is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. AFP

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas), pictured in Hawaii.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, under construction in 2019, promises to reveal more objects faster than any previous telescope. Photo: LSST

A computer-generated image shows the impact of the Dart projectile on the binary asteroid system, Didymos. ESA/AFP

Spotlights illuminate the Saturn V booster rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts, on December 19, 1968. AP

A rendering of the Psyche asteroid

Hills are covered with fallen and burnt trees after a meteorite hit in 1908. Getty

People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. AP

People standing near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in central Russia. AFP

A meteorite trail is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. AFP

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas), pictured in Hawaii.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, under construction in 2019, promises to reveal more objects faster than any previous telescope. Photo: LSST

A computer-generated image shows the impact of the Dart projectile on the binary asteroid system, Didymos. ESA/AFP

Spotlights illuminate the Saturn V booster rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts, on December 19, 1968. AP

European Space Agency launches project to help smash meteorites off collision course with Earth

The ESA mission will test the feasibility of changing the direction of an asteroid’s flight in space

September 16, 2020

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