Answer to Dictation 1
Hollywood has made many sci-fi movies about asteroids crashing into Earth.
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Answer to Dictation 2
It has tested a spacecraft that could change the direction of an asteroid.
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Answer to Dictation 3
DART collided with the centre of the asteroid at 24,000 kph on Monday.
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Scientists do not yet know if they have changed the asteroid's direction.
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They will find out from data they will get in a few weeks time.
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It is the first time that humans have tried to change the direction.
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Nagle said DART was the first of many planetary protection missions.
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He compared our chances of surviving an asteroid hit to the end of the dinosaurs.
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Answer to Dictation 9
In pre-history all the dinosaurs could do was to look up.
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Answer to Dictation 10
Protect ourselves from something like a dangerous hazardous asteroid.
See the asteroid lesson for the whole text.
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