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A high-speed NASA spacecraft veered toward an asteroid on Monday -- and rammed into the rock deliberately.

Why? NASA decided to plow their DART craft into a harmless asteroid nearly 11.3 million kilometres away from Earth as a practice run in case there's ever a rock heading on a collision course with our planet.

Although it was obvious that the impact was a success when the spacecraft's signal ceased, it will take months to determine if the asteroid’s path was actually changed.

Watch the moment of the crash by clicking the video at the top of this article.

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