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3 Questions: Fortifying our planetary defenses
March 12, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 12 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:

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3 Questions: Fortifying our planetary defenses

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When people think of asteroids, they tend to picture rare, civilization-ending impacts like those depicted in movies such as "Armageddon." In reality, the asteroids most likely to affect modern society are much smaller. While kilometer-scale impacts occur only every tens of m . . .

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