In the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster "#Armageddon," Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck race to save the Earth from being pulverized by an asteroid. While the Earth faces no such immediate danger, #NASA plans to crash a #spacecraft traveling at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kph) into an #asteroid next year in a test of "planetary defence."

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