asteroid named ditimus and its moonlet. these asteroids are not a threat to the earth, they are not on a path to hit the earth in the foreseeable future. reporter: traveling at a speed of 6.6 kilometers a second, d.a.r.t. will then deliberately crash into the moonlet to try to jolt it from its regular orbit. scientists back on earth will monitor the collision using satellite imagery and ground-based telescopes to see how much the moonlet changes course. one day, an asteroid is z discovered on a collision course with earth, and we have an idea of how big that asteroid is, we will have an idea how much momentum we need to make that asteroid miss the earth. the targeted moonlet is a little larger than one of the pyramids in egypt. nasa says there are 10,000 known asteroids that are just as big
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