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dot com and secure your seats today it's wednesday october 12th twenty two. I'm Jackson Bird today. The verdict on that asteroid that

NASA hit with a spacecraft last month. Plus, Tom Cruise's latest plan to make history in space,

and the latest Cards Against Humanity expansion packion Pack that you can only buy at Target,

and which is submerged within a jar of clam-flavored mayonnaise.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Remember two weeks ago when NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid?

Well, now we've got the details on how it went.

So Dart, or the double asteroid redirection test, slammed into the asteroid dimorphis

at 14,000 miles per hour on September 26th.

Dymorphis was never a threat to Earth, just an unfortunate test subject.

Dymorphus orbits the larger asteroid didomos, and the point of the test was to see if a collision could knock the asteroid off its orbits,

therefore proving that as a viable method for nudging any asteroids on a path for Earth off their trajectory

to protect us from any potential future impacts.

Dart was a wee spacecraft with basically just a camera on board, which shared images every

second as it approached the asteroid.

But since the whole point was to collide with the asteroid,

the images would therefore stop as soon as Dart hit dimorphos because the satellite would be

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