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Another gigantic asteroid will come within Earth's neighborhood on Wednesday, and Earthlings can watch it live online, knowing it's at a safe distance. How to watch a stadium-sized asteroid zoom ...
A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in decades - but its spectacle isn’t over yet.. The asteroid, named (887) Alinda, will reach ...
The 7,600-foot long celestial object has earned the nickname ‘planet killer,’ flying at speeds of 58,000 miles per hour
The Taurids are an annual meteor shower, associated with the comet Encke.The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke, while the Northern Taurids originated from the asteroid 2004 TG 10, possibly a large fragment of Encke due to its similar orbital parameters.
(89959) 2002 NT 7 (provisional designation 2002 NT 7) is a near-Earth object with a diameter of 1.4 kilometers and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. [2] [3] It has a well determined orbit with an observation arc of 64 years including precovery images by Palomar Observatory dating back to 1954.
2023 DW is a near-Earth asteroid of the Aten group.It is approximately 50 meters (160 feet) in diameter, roughly the size of the asteroid that caused the Tunguska event, [a] and was discovered by Georges Attard and Alain Maury, from the MAP (Maury/Attard/Parrott) asteroid search program in San Pedro de Atacama on 26 February 2023, when it was 0.07 AU (10 million km) from Earth. [1]
A “potentially hazardous” asteroid about the size of a large skyscraper is predicted to zoom past the Earth at a distance of 1.7 million miles away from the planet on Friday, according to Nasa ...
Artist's impression of the asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatán Peninsula in what is today Southeast Mexico. [13] The aftermath of the asteroid collision, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is believed to have caused the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many other species on Earth. [13]