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The John Batchelor Show / PREVIEW FOR LATER. Bob Zimmerman explains the DART mission, which tested planetary defense by impacting a binary asteroid system. The experiment successfully demonstrated that a kinetic impact could alter an asteroid's orbit to protect Earth. (6)

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