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A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.
A giant asteroid named 2003 MH4, larger than the Eiffel Tower, will safely fly past Earth on May 24 but raises concerns about ...
Asteroid 2025 KF is estimated to have a diameter ranging between 32 and 75 feet (10 - 23 meters), making it approximately the size of a house. Even if 2025 KF were to hit Earth, its small size ...
These articles describe the ways asteroid sample ... to that of a meteorite hitting Earth. Scientists don’t often have the advance notice needed to study how real meteoroids – the term given ...
The researchers estimated that the asteroid was between one hundred and three hundred feet in diameter, and if it hit Earth, it would release as much energy as a ten-megaton nuclear bomb.
Mary Magnuson, The Conversation (THE CONVERSATION) China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid ... a meteorite hitting Earth. Scientists don’t often have the advance notice needed to study how real meteoroids ...