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Asteroid Apophis the chosen target of a planetary defense exercise during its 6 March flyby
Asteroid's moon gets a name before NASA's DART mission crashes into it in 2022
Massive asteroids JF1, Apophis to graze Earth in 2020s; planetary defence courtesy NASA, ESA still underway
Incoming! NASA's DART mission will deliberately smash into an asteroid in 2022
Killer asteroid obliterates New York in planetary defense simulation exercise
Eight simulated years of prep wasn't enough for scientists to deflect the killer asteroid successfully.
