A NASA spacecraft is closing in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic grand slam is set to occur at 6:13 p.m. Central at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the rock at 14,000 mph.
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