NASA Tracking Three Vehicle-Sized Asteroids Nearing Earth Today
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
Could This Asteroid Be a Lost Chunk of the Moon?
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
Study finds that Earth's small asteroid visitor is likely a chunk of moon rock
A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...
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There's a small chance an asteroid could hit Earth within the next decade, says NASA
Five asteroids are expected to make close approaches ... Nasa/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images Asteroid 2024 YR4 has an "interesting" orbit, Fast said. The elongated path takes the asteroid around the ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit. The possibility that this belt is made of lunar debris is “indeed an unexpected discovery,” de la ...
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Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
the telescope is designed to discover 90% of asteroids and comets that are 460 feet in size or larger and come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.