End of the world: NASA’s doomsday plan for planet-destroying event exposed

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NASA has a plan to save mankind as the end of the world becomes more than just a possibility, a scientist revealed in a sobering interview.

First announced by the space agency in 2016, the Planetary Defence Coordination Office is part of NASA’s Planetary Science Division to plan against possible life-ending events. Their job is to catalogue and track Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHO) such as asteroids and comets. But the team is also running simulations should such a threat slip through unnoticed, to study the possibility of diverting a space rock, while also looking at the consequences if one does hit in the future.

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