Asteroid DW Chances Of Impacting The Earth In 2046
Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...
Giant meteorite that hit Earth 3 billion years ago may have helped life thrive: Study
Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...
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Bus-Size Asteroid Flew Closer Than The Moon - Watch The Orbit Animation
Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
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Earth Has a Temporary Mini-Moon Until Thanksgiving: Here's What That Means
It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...
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The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid stretching 6 miles (10 kilometers) across struck Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. Today, the probability of an asteroid that size wiping ...
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Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets.
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Saturn Trojan asteroid confirmed
A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...