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An Asteroid Doesn’t Have to Hit Earth to Cause Catastrophe

A less-known threat can dramatic consequences for human civilization: a collision between a large asteroid and the moon. The debris from such a collision would damage satellites that underpin the infrastructure for everything from telecommunications, to defense, to navigation here on Earth.

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An Asteroid Doesn’t Have to Hit Earth to Cause Catastrophe

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