DART on its way to Dimorphos (rendering) — NASA/JPL

NASA Just Saved The World (Sort of)

We now have the power to avert one of the worst natural disasters. Or do we?

Will Lockett
Predict
Published in
4 min readSep 28, 2022

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The worst kind of natural disaster hasn’t happened for 65 million years. I am, of course, talking about a planet-altering asteroid impact. As our telescopes have developed over the years, we have started to realise that there are hundreds of asteroids just past Mars that are

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Will Lockett
Predict

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