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Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar system
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
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Solar System News
15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...
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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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How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?
We usually see such warnings about one or two objects every year; the latest iteration concerns an asteroid ... objects zipping through our solar system. Seen from Earth, such objects appear ...
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Nasa reveals orbit of asteroid that could collide with Earth in 2032
Days after it was confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of colliding with Earth, American space agency, Nasa ...
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A precious handful of dirt
On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September ... went ahead because the only way to understand how the Solar System came about and what ...
"City-killer" asteroid's odds of crashing into Earth go up as Webb telescope is tasked with studying massive space rock
Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of striking Earth in 2032.
Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth.
YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.
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Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of hitting Earth
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spied 2024 YR4 on December 27. The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs funded by ...
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New NASA imagery shows a large asteroid could impact Earth in 2032
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of ...
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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 ...