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    Asteroids have historically been observed from Earth and up close by spacecraft. NASA and JAXA have launched several asteroid missions to study asteroids like Eros, Vesta, Ceres, Itokawa, and Ryugu. Current and planned missions include OSIRIS-REx returning samples from Bennu, Lucy visiting eight asteroids, and Psyche studying the metallic asteroid of the same name. Near-Earth asteroids pose an impact threat and could cause mass extinctions like the one that killed the dinosaurs. The DART mission successfully crashed into Dimorphos in 2022 to test asteroid deflection strategies.

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    Asteroids have historically been observed from Earth and up close by spacecraft. NASA and JAXA have launched several asteroid missions to study asteroids like Eros, Vesta, Ceres, Itokawa, and Ryugu. Current and planned missions include OSIRIS-REx returning samples from Bennu, Lucy visiting eight asteroids, and Psyche studying the metallic asteroid of the same name. Near-Earth asteroids pose an impact threat and could cause mass extinctions like the one that killed the dinosaurs. The DART mission successfully crashed into Dimorphos in 2022 to test asteroid deflection strategies.

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    Asteroids have historically been observed from Earth.

    The Galileo spacecraft


    provided the first close-up observations of an asteroid. Several dedicated asteroid
    missions have since been launched by NASA and JAXA, and plans for other missions
    are underway. NASA's NEAR Shoemaker studied Eros, and Dawn observed Vesta and
    Ceres. JAXA's Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 missions examined and returned samples from
    Itokawa and Ryugu, respectively. OSIRIS-REx surveyed her Bennu, collecting samples
    in 2020 and returning to Earth in 2023. Lucy, which launches in 2021, has an
    itinerary that includes eight different asteroids (one from the main belt and seven
    Jupiter trojans). Scheduled to launch in 2023 or 2024, Psyche will study the
    metallic asteroid of the same name.
    Near-Earth asteroids could threaten all life on Earth. Asteroid impacts led to the
    Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. Various strategies have been proposed to deflect
    asteroids. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft was launched in
    2021 and successfully crashed into Dimorphos in September 2022, altering its
    trajectory.

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