NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid …
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Asteroid 2012 TC4 flyby
This remarkable footage shows the flyby of asteroid 2012 TC4 during the night of 11/12 October 2017. At the time this was recorded, the estimated 10-20 m-diameter asteroid was approaching …
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“An asteroid 2002 AJ129 will pass not far from the Earth on February 4” says NASA
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Asteroid 2002 AJ129 goes to Earth at 108,000 km/h
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Revealing Asteroids with Radar – Asteroid 1998 QE2 2013 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
more at Radar astronomy shows that Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. Two NASA-JPL videos joined together: 1) “When Asteroid 1998 QE2 makes its closest approach to Earth on May …
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How big an asteroid would need to be to wipe out New York City
An asteroid doesn’t need to be massive to cause serious damage. The Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 6 miles in diameter. That …
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Asteroid Initiative: Practicing for a Future Mission to an Asteroid
Astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen practice climbing out of the Orion spacecraft and taking samples from an asteroid in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center.
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Closest Known Approach by a Large Asteroid
2005 YU-55 is going to make a very close approach to the Earth on the night of November 8, 2011. At that time, its distance from Earth will be just …
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An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Past Earth, Here’s What You Need to Know
In October, astronomers observed an interstellar asteroid for the first time. We talked to one of the first to study it, and here’s everything they’ve learned in the months since. …
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Creepy skull-shaped asteroid is going to cruise by Earth in 2018
Giant rocks hurtling through space are probably scary enough all on their own, but when one of them looks like a human skull, well, that’s just downright unsettling. Asteroid 2015 …
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