What If the Asteroid Belt Had Formed a Super-Earth? Scientists Reveal the Shocking Impact
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
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A Tale of Two Asteroids
Researchers needed such data to reverse engineer the detailed shape of this space rock, allowing them to accurately map this asteroid ... Instead, 20008 Adacarrera is a “main-belt” asteroid that ...
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This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
It can also determine how a force called the Yarkovsky effect can gradually change an asteroid’s motion, changing its long-term orbit. NASA's Deep Space Network radio telescopes can ping ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...
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Odin probe blasts off on SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid for possible mining mission
A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission ... that will map water resources with an instrument built by the University of Oxford. The asteroid mission ...