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NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
Jess joined Newsweek in May 2022 and previously worked at ... times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly 22 ...
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Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster
In the 2000s, NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), stationed in deep space around a million miles (1.5 million kilometers ... its target asteroid: 2022 OB5, a small near-Earth ...
The Post-Star14d
How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon ... U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the ...
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Bright Comet's Tail Dazzles in 'Bleeding' Images from NASA Spacecraft
Jess joined Newsweek in May 2022 and previously ... as "bleeding") in the images," NASA explained. The comet was only first discovered on April 5 last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind, altering its ...
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NASA: 1.6% chance newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth in 2032
Scientists are hoping to rule out any chance of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 before it disappears from view. In September 2022 ... Science News // 5 days ago NASA's stranded astronauts ...
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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...
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Chance of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade rises to 3.1%, NASA says
South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth.
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New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ... The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defense test of its kind ...
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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
"I find this asteroid ... (59.5 million kilometers) from Earth and 130 million miles (209 million kilometers) from the sun. "I find 2024 YR4 to be extremely exciting!" Bryce Bolin, the NASA ...