Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

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Initially, the probability of an impact was 1 in 83, which represented a 1.2% chance of collision. The odds have now increased to 1 in 43, or a 2.3% chance of impact.