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Big asteroid quartet, including 'city killer,' to approach Earth
In the coming decades, at least two of the asteroids are expected to make an even closer flyby of Earth. 2024 TR6 will return on Aug. 5, 2039, coming within just 1.2 million miles of our planet; and 2024 TP17 will make its comeback on Oct.
4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24)
Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two of them were only discovered earlier this month.
'City killer' asteroid is one of four making close approach to Earth
Four huge asteroids, including one the size of a skyscraper, are making a close approach to planet Earth. Asteroids striking the Earth can have a devastating impact, but luckily, experts are able to gauge whether those heading in our direction pose an imminent threat.
Four 'killer' asteroids hurtling towards Earth today as NASA issues warning
Four asteroids - 2002 NV16, 2015 HM1, 2024 TP17, and 2024 TR6 - will be skimming past Earth today, but scientists say there's no reason to worry as they are far from our planet
4 large asteroids, including 1 the size of a skyscraper, speed past Earth
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the planet ever recorded.
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'City killer' asteroid is one of FOUR 'potentially hazardous' space rocks set to skim past Earth today, NASA warns
If one 'city killer' asteroid skimming past Earth seems like enough of a worry, NASA's latest warning might be quite ...
Collision alert: ‘City-killer’ asteroid Apophis could hit Earth in 2029, European Space Agency prepares defense mission
Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...
What Hollywood gets wrong—and surprisingly right—about saving the world from killer asteroids
But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and ...
The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
Exact times four 'killer asteroids' due head for earth amid NASA warning
The huge space rocks that are set to pass by Earth later today could cause untold devastation should they ever impact the ...
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A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish
"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water. It's a low-energy environment without strong currents. Then, all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by ...
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Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt
So, say you have a city-killer coming towards Earth, if we have less than 10 years, for example, or the asteroid is way bigger than that, and we do have more time, you can't just slam a ...
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Nuclear Bomb Can Deflect Future Killer Asteroid, Scientists Discover
Eight hours’ notice would be enough to evacuate inhabitants in the case of a city-killer asteroid. People: one, asteroids: nil. Then, on September 23, experimental physicists at Sandia National ...