Astronomers are tracking giant asteroid's chances of hitting Earth
YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...
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Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problem
But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid ... Objects traversing our solar system have been misidentified several ...
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Astronomers thought Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster was an asteroid. It points to broader problems tracking objects in deep space
But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid ... Objects traversing our solar system have been misidentified several ...
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Asteroid Bennu could trigger a global winter lasting more than 3 years and here’s what’s known
named and numbered in our solar system. The vast majority can be found in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroid approaches happen every day while close approaches ...
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Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of hitting Earth
The potential for damage arises because of the incredibly high speed (about 17 ... more than 1,000 people. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado ...
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A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.
Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...
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New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...