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Oct 2022
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Why NASA crashed a spacecraft into an as...

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Luke O’Neill Professor of Biochemistry at the School of Immunology, Trinity College Dublin tells us why NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid at 22000 km/h.  
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