with me is former rocket scientist and editor of nasawatch.com, keith cowing.ojoined by the bbc�*s science correpsondent jonathan amos in london. great to have the both of you on the — great to have the both of you on the programme. ijust want i just want to show the audience life at nasa we can see them on our screen out in those two dots that you're seeing the screen one of the of course the asteroid the other the object nasa is sending to crash into that asteroid. which will take place in the next ten minutes or so. just to start with it is quite significant incident in the first time that nasa has attempted this planetary defence mission of this size why are they doing this? it this size why are they doing this? , ., .. , this? it is not exactly the first time _ this? it is not exactly the first time two _ this? it is not exactly the first time two years - this? it is not exactly the first time two years ago | this? it is not exactly the - first time two years ago they did crash a spacecraft they called a deep impact. but that was dismayed to see what flew

earlier, i spoke to former rocket scientist and editor of nasawatch.com, keith cowing, who spoke aboutmission. what you're talking about is you have got a little man orbiting another asteroid. this asteroid might cause a problem to earth butjust because we knockedit to earth butjust because we knocked it around doesn't mean that we made things worse. we are not going to be hit by it. but what they were trying to do is by slamming something into this moment, to give itjust enough of a punch that it might change the orbit of the as to write just a little bit and that may be enough to prevent any other asteroid that we determined to be a problem hitting earth. but it requires a lot of precision and i7 a lot of precision and 17 metres of after travelling ten months around the solar system, i think that is pretty good. it is not bad. i think we have accepted that it is pretty good. what do we know now from what has just been achieved? how much of the information we have gathered so far gives you the confidence to believe that they have sort of cracked the system? i they have sort of cracked

keith who lives in bristol, by the looks of it. lives well. the cat has about 50,000 subscribers, their number is growing every day, because, according to fans, some look like a small, well-fed cowne of the brazilian car services. it's a chimpanzee named kirk washing a primate's car, though they don't trust it yet. he is still in the process of learning, but on the other hand, he washes everything, what he finishes to, with the jet of his pistol. in general, we are waiting for kirk to rise to quasi-roll. in one of the philippine cities, a hungry dog ​​took advantage of the lack of sellers and stole a package with food. the incident was recorded by a surveillance camera of the tail. you made a choice, as you can see, you did everything very professionally, internet users suggested that this was not his first case. and at the end of the video, which has baffled almost 3 million internet users, one and a half kilometers from the coast in the waters of the cold atlantic fishermen. we saw two deer drifting, they tried to pull the animals out of the water, but they politely refused to help, what the horned ones did so far from the coast and where they swam is unknown. on on september