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A Direct Hit! The impressive #solarstorm launched in the Earth-strike zone has been modeled by NASA. The storm is predicted to hit Earth by midday December 1. Along with two earlier storms already ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says there is currently a 3.1% chance the asteroid will hit Earth on December 22, 2032, during a fleeting window of time in which the rock's orbit around the sun ...
The Earth will be hit by a tiny asteroid today, astronomers have said. But the tiny asteroid – which is roughly one metre in size – will burn up in the atmosphere as it arrives. That means it ...
Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman, and serves as the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It is based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" [2] written for Wired magazine by John Carlin.
Lāhainā Noon, also known as a zero shadow day, is a semi-annual tropical solar phenomenon when the Sun culminates at the zenith at solar noon, passing directly overhead. [1] As a result, the sun's rays will fall exactly vertical relative to an object on the ground and cast no observable shadow. [2]
The gamma-ray burst was ten minutes long, [1] but was detectable for more than ten hours following initial detection. [2] [3] Despite being around 2.4 billion light-years away, it was powerful enough to affect Earth's atmosphere, having the strongest effect ever recorded by a gamma-ray burst on the planet.
This is the third geomagnetic storm to reach G4 status during the current 11-year solar cycle, which began in 2019, officials said.
The Apollo asteroid was inbound approaching a mid-December perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) when it impacted Earth. [5] Even at opposition on 15 October 2022 when 2022 WJ 1 was 0.2 AU (30 million km ; 78 LD ) from Earth, it had an unobservable apparent magnitude of 31 which is about 600 times too faint to be detected by even the most ...