Aircraft-sized Asteroid 2023 MU to buzz Earth today! NASA reveals details
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Asteroids make close approaches to Earth very frequently. The potential chance of impact leaves a big question mark about how we are going to protect the Earth from a possible impact. To counter this threat, NASA has already carried out the testing of its DART Mission for planetary protection. The space agency crashed a spacecraft into an oncoming asteroid to divert it from its path, thus successfully testing a method of asteroid diversion. Moreover, ESA has a mission in place called NEOMIR that will act as an early warning system for asteroids 20 meters and larger that cannot be seen from the Earth.Today, NASA, with the help of its various space and ground-based telescopes, has issued a warning against an asteroid that will come very close to the planet, and it is huge! Asteroid...