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An asteroid on target with a earth collision. Asteroid diversion missions could help prevent this scenario becoming a crisis.China is planning its first mission to impact an asteroid in the name of planetary defense. The mission will serve a dual purpose: One craft will impact the asteroid while its partner observes the space rock to learn more about the solar system and its formation.just this week, on Tuesday , when it passed within 31 million miles of our planet.
Asteroids like 2015 XF261 are thought to have been created from material left over after the formation of the planets around 4.6 billion years ago. As such, they offer the opportunity to study"unspoiled" material that was the building blocks of the solar system's worlds, including 2015 XF261 is set to pass Earth in March and May 2027, but the asteroid will still be 20 million miles from our planet at the time, and the CNSA will need time to reach it. DART hit Dimorphos when its system was just 7 million miles from Earth, and that journey took 10 months to complete.
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