A Post On Asteroids, Banana Daiquiri's & David Boreanaz

Space is sexy, not in a David Boreanaz serving me Banana Daiquiri's on a desert island dressed in skimpy speedo's type way but in a looking on in amazement and awe type way, think Boris Johnson making cocoa in your kitchen wearing his Thomas the Tank Engine pyjamas and you get the jist of where i am heading with this.
On the whole space exploration is lots of little very important, but very ho hum, missions like travelling a couple of million miles to have a look at a Planet's Atmosphere or collecting data on watercress being grown on the International Space Station but then the space boffins will do something spectacular and one which was announced in 2013 was to redirect an Asteroid into orbit around the moon.
Over the past nine years NASA have whittled down the list from 1,000 potential moon circling Asteroids to just four and are currently looking at which of these have the best velocity, orbit, size and spin to safely deflect our way because if you are going to fling a massive space boulder our way you need to be sure it doesn't go wrong and you find yourself apologising to the massive crater where Norway used to be.  
With the date for the pencilled in for 2025, NASA are doing a small scale practise by attempting to deflect an Asteroid out of it's orbit which has the double mission of being handy for redirecting the path of an Asteroid or Comet which is dangerously heading our way.  
Called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the target is the 170 metre Dimorphos Asteroid about 7 million miles away which will soon find a spacecraft ramming into it at 15,000 mph to try and change its orbit and provide vital information on how to best to apply it to future planetary defense scenarios which is crucial because an Asteroid over 140 meters landing on Earth would be catastrophic for life on Earth and each year a dozen or so over that size cause some sweating at NASA headquarters.
So yes, while preventing human's being wiped out is very important, it is a large step towards us having an freaking pet Asteroid circling the Moon and to return to my initial line, that's sexy in a David Boreanaz serving Banana Daiquiri's on a desert island while apologising that he had forgotten his speedo's and packed only a dozen bottle's of baby oil type way.