What could go wrong? Scientists are about to LAND on a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid as it skims past Earth

In echoes of the film Armageddon - when a team are sent to touch down on an asteroid and blow it up - scientists hope to send two 'landers' to explore the space rock during its flyby.


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