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SwRI engineers and scientists work with NASA to better understand how crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid bearing down on Earth could nudge its trajectory to avoid impact. SwRI uses hypervelocity impact experiments and computational modeling (shown) to understand how materials ejected from an impact crater increase the momentum change to the asteroid.