While an asteroid impact might be a distant possibility for now, China is bracing for such eventuality by announcing a plan to launch rockets into space to deflect such threats away from Earth. China Space Agency Targeting Asteroid Bennu for Practice Hit China’s National Space Science Center said that it is targeting the asteroid Bennu, a 1,614 feet (492 meter) wide rotating rock-based mass with an orbit that will send it within 7.5 kilometers from Earth by the year 2175 to 2199.…

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