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In Armageddon mission, Nasa to crash $330m spacecraft into asteroid to alter its course

The half-tonne probe will be travelling at more than four miles a second

Earth was hit by another huge asteroid at the same time as the one that wiped out dinosaurs, vast crater suggests

The new crater, nicknamed Nadir, appears to have been caused by something that would be comparably destructive on its own

NASA: Asteroid 2.3 times the size of dinosaur heading for Earth

Asteroid 2022 PW may be small, but it will fly dangerously close to the Earth, relatively close to the Moon's distance to the planet

Asteroid swoops past Earth just days after being discovered by NASA

Experts are concerned that we could be taken by surprise by a hazardous asteroid so NASA & other space agencies have launched planetary protection programs

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