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Nasa prepares to crash spacecraft into asteroid in ‘planetary defense test’ – live

Space agency conducts Dart mission to learn whether asteroid’s trajectory can be diverted away from Earth

Good afternoon blog readers, space enthusiasts, and those who just want to know if humanity can be saved from the apocalypse of a giant asteroid slamming into Earth.

In about two hours from now, at 7.14pm ET, Nasa will take the first steps towards finding out. The space agency will intentionally crash a spacecraft the size of a small car into Dimorphos, the moon of the asteroid Didymos, orbiting about 6.8m miles away.

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