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Bus-Sized Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon Next Week
"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt. However, as they are relatively small, asteroids have
Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the planet ever recorded.
An asteroid the size of a skyscraper and 4 other space rocks to fly by Earth
In the next few days, five asteroids that range anywhere between a bud to a tall building are expected to fly by Earth. Here's a quick look at all of them.
4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span tomorrow (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.
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.
Big asteroid quartet, including 'city killer,' to approach Earth
Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of Earth on Thursday. Deemed potentially hazardous, each will come within 30 miles of our planet in just a span of 12 hours.
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A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish
The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...
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Six Asteroids — One Considered Potentially Hazardous — Flew Past Earth In Less Than 24 Hours
The late afternoon welcomed the closest visitor: asteroid 2024 UY. It came just 184,000 miles from Earth, less than half ...
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Almost All Meteorites That Hit Earth Are Coming From the Same Three Places, Scientists Discover
Resaerchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different ...
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A spacecraft to save humanity? How Hera will boost Earth’s planetary defense
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission is the first to send a spacecraft and two CubeSats to an asteroid in deep space.
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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine
Four large “potentially hazardous” asteroids – one the size of a skyscraper – are expected to pass by Earth on Thursday, ...
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Earth survived an asteroid impact in 1908 that most people don’t know about
On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
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A near-Earth asteroid offers clues to one dark matter theory
Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.
Asteroid Enters As Fireball Over California Skies Right After Its Discovery; Video Surfaces
Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the ...