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Earlier this year experts gathered at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for the largest, most detailed simulation of an asteroid strike on a US city. North Carolina's city of Winston-Salem volunteered to be "impacted," and hundreds of state and local officials played the "wargame."

While DART was on its way to Dimorphos, experts had gathered at its birthplace, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, for a role-playing game.

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Earlier this year experts gathered at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for the largest, most detailed simulation of an asteroid strike on a US city. North Carolina's city of Winston-­Salem volunteered to be "impacted," and hundreds of state and local officials played the "wargame."

Earlier this year experts gathered at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for the largest, most detailed simulation of an asteroid strike on a US city. North Carolina's city of Winston-Salem volunteered to be "impacted," and hundreds of state and local officials played the "wargame."