MSU helps confirm success of NASA’s first planetary defense mission, trains future astronomers

It’s not hard to make the case that Seth Jacobson is a bit of a celebrity scientist: Leonardo DiCaprio kind of played him. 

In the movie “Don’t Look Up,” DiCaprio portrayed a fictitious Michigan State University scientist trying to save the world from a comet on a collision course with Earth. Jacobson is a real MSU scientist working with NASA to prove it could redirect incoming space rocks if the need arises. 

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