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NASA planning to track asteroids using 'orbital slingshot of cosmic energy'

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NASA has approved funding for a groundbreaking "dynamic orbital slingshot" which aims to track asteroids. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed the concept project to get up close and personal with the space rocks.

It uses a small fleet of satellites parked in orbit to slingshot tiny probes at wandering interstellar objects. It would do this by harnessing the sun's gravitational pull and allow for closer observation of asteroids or comets.

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