Susanna Reid was quick to correct Ed Balls when he made a claim about Father Christmas that could have upset many children across the country if they caught a glimpse of Good Morning Britain this morning.
The presenting duo were back at the helm of the ITV news programme on Monday (September 26) when they discussed NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart). NASA will launch a probe to crash into an asteroid to see how difficult it would be to stop a sizeable space rock from hitting Earth.
The spacecraft, known as Dart, will crash into the asteroid called Dimorphos. The asteroid is 11 million km [7 million miles] away, and is not currently on a path to hit Earth, nor will it be after Dart crashes into it. The spacecraft is only 19 meters wide, and will crash into the 780 meter asteroid with the hope of knocking it off course slightly. If successful, any asteroids on a path to hit Earth could be hit in the same way and miss the planet.
