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66 Maja (/ ˈ m eɪ ə /) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 71 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 April 1861, by American astronomer Horace Tuttle at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. [ 21 ]
Two independent clones, Asteroid for the Apple II and Fasteroids for TRS-80, were renamed to Planetoids and sold by Adventure International. Others clones include Acornsoft 's Meteors , Moons of Jupiter for the VIC-20 , MineStorm for the Vectrex , [ 8 ] and Quicksilva's Meteor Storm for the ZX Spectrum which uses speech synthesis.
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
Asteroid-launcher runs on top of the libhybris compatibility layer to make use of Bionic GPU drivers. [13] AsteroidOS offers Bluetooth Low Energy synchronization capabilities with the asteroid-btsyncd daemon running on top of BlueZ5. [14] A reference client named AsteroidOS Sync is available for Android users.
App Simulates the Catastrophic, Impact of an Asteroid , Strike On Earth.'Newsweek' reports that a web game developer has released an app that lets users simulate an asteroid strike on any given ...
In the aftermath of the February 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion—where an approximate 20 metres (66 ft) asteroid entered the atmosphere undetected at about Mach 60, becoming a brilliant superbolide meteor before exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia [63] [75] —the B612 foundation experienced a "surge of interest" in its project to detect ...
Distant, ancient chunk of metal is thought to be a protoplanet
[2] [3] The B612 Foundation is dedicated to protecting the Earth from dangerous asteroid strikes and Sentinel was to be the Foundation's first spacecraft tangibly to address that mission. The space telescope was intended to locate and catalog 90% of the asteroids greater than 140 metres (460 ft) in diameter that exist in near-Earth orbits .