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  2. How to watch a stadium-sized asteroid zoom by Earth this week

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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 ...

  3. Watch live: Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with largest ...

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    Watch live as a Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with the largest asteroid sample in history on Sunday 24 September. After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, the ambitious NASA ...

  4. Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance - Wikipedia

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    CAMS [3] networks around the world use an array of low-light video surveillance cameras to collect astrometric tracks and brightness profiles of meteors in the night sky. . Triangulation of those tracks results in the meteor's direction and speed, from which the meteors’ orbit in space is calculated and the material's parent body can be identifi

  5. 2024 UQ - Wikipedia

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    2024 UQ, designated formerly as A11dc6D, was a one-meter meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on 22 October 2024 above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. 2024 UQ is the tenth impact event that was successfully predicted, which was discovered by the ATLAS survey.

  6. How to watch the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor ...

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    The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the strongest, and quickest, meteor showers of the year. Here’s what you need to know to observe it during peak activity.

  7. 2024 RW1 - Wikipedia

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    2024 RW 1, previously known under its provisional designation CAQTDL2, [5] was a 1-meter-sized asteroid or meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on September 5, 2024, at around 12:40 a.m. PHT (September 4, 16:40 UTC) above the western Pacific Ocean near Cagayan, Philippines.

  8. Bus-size asteroid to zoom by close to Earth today - AOL

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    A recently-discovered asteroid approximately the size of a bus is set to whizz between the Earth and the moon on Thursday afternoon. Bus-size asteroid to zoom by close to Earth today Skip to main ...

  9. (7482) 1994 PC1 - Wikipedia

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    (7482) 1994 PC 1 is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object, currently estimated to be the most potentially hazardous asteroid over the next 1000 years. [6] [7] It is in the Apollo group, approximately 1.1 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 August 1994, by astronomer Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran ...