NASA Tests Planetary Defense System As A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Zooms Towards Earth

NASA partook in an international exercise to test the operational readiness of limiting, or preventing, global destruction from an incoming asteroid

"This real-world scientific input stress-tested the entire planetary defense response chain, from initial detection to orbit determination to measuring the asteroid's physical characteristics and even determining if, and where, it might hit Earth," proclaimed Visnhu Reddy, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson.