Oh my sweet Dimorphos, how the minds of men plot and scheme against you, hellbent on barraging you from your noble course.
I will pray for thee sweet moonlet of Didymos and for Didymos too, no mind of man could ever know the sorrow of loosing such a moonlet.
RIP Dimorphos
So, NASA is going to deflect an asteroid that is not on a collision course with Earth, away from Earth.
You know whats going to happen eh!
Obviously, hope I'm wrong, but just saying.
Tomorrow, NASA is making history by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it, testing a method of planetary defense (should an asteroid pose a major threat to Earth).
DART will crash into Dimorphos, (moonlet of Didymos), which poses no harm to us.
This is a meteorite: the mixture of the iron-nickel alloy and olivine originated from a small protoplanet out of the dawn of the Solar System. And, bonus, it's perfectly polished [source, read more: https://t.co/61ew1SfH10]