Bus-sized asteroid will temporarily join Earth's orbit as 'mini moon' starting Sunday
The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet's gravity and orbit the globe - but only for about two months.
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Earth gains a second Moon: Asteroid 2024 PT5 joins orbitFrom September 29 to November 25, Earth will have two natural satellites. In addition to the Moon, asteroid 2024 PT5, also ...
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion.
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NASA Radar Captures Potentially Hazardous Asteroid During Close Encounter With EarthNASA has captured radar images of a newly discovered, potentially hazardous asteroid as it tumbled towards its closest ...
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