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6 asteroids are headed for Earth this month, and 1 is bigger than the Empire State Building
Scientists at NASA are tracking six asteroids that will be heading in the direction of our planet during the next few weeks, and one of them is larger than the Empire State Building. But, first things first. Take a deep breath. Experts are assuring us there’s no reason to panic.
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NASA Asteroid Tracker: Will 1,870ft NEO Collide With Earth Tomorrow?
NASA has spotted the biggest asteroid that will approach Earth this month. According to the agency’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is bigger than the Taipei 101 skyscraper. CNEOS has identified the massive asteroid as 2006 QQ23. As indicated in the agency’s tracking database, the asteroid is currently traveling with a velocity of 10,400 miles per hour. It is estimated to have a diameter of around 1,870 feet.
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Asteroid impacts may have created running water on Mars, study finds
Analysis carried out by researchers at the University of Glasgow has revealed “unprecedented details” about how asteroid strikes could create temporary sources of liquid water on Mars.
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NASA confirms new asteroid heading toward earth; Will it just pass by or destroy the planet?
When 2019 MO was destroyed while entering earth's atmosphere NASA was clueless about its coming, but now they know that another asteroid heading toward earth
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Scientist Suggests Smashing Asteroid Into Mars To Make It Habitable
Taking inspiration from SpaceX founder Elon Musk, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson came up with a drastic plan to make Mars habitable for humans. According to Tyson, redirecting an asteroid or comet and intentionally crashing it into Mars could make the Red Planet more livable.
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Huge asteroid that narrowly missed Earth ‘slipped through the net’
The largest asteroid to pass as close to the Earth in a century “slipped through” Nasa’s detection systems, internal emails reveal. Named 2019 OK by scientists, the asteroid nearly passed by undetected as it came five times closer to Earth than the moon, documents obtained by Buzzfeed via freedom of information requests revealed.
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Tons of Water in Asteroids Could Fuel Satellites, Space Exploration
When it comes to mining space for water, the best target may not be the moon: Entrepreneurs' richest options are likely to be asteroids that are larger and closer to Earth. A recent study suggested that roughly 1,000 water-rich, or hydrated, asteroids near our planet are easier to reach than the lunar surface is. While most of these space rocks are only a few feet in size, more than 25 of them should be large enough to each provide significant water.
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New Telescope to Scan Skies for Asteroids on Collision Course with Earth
An international team of scientists is constructing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which will be an essential tool for asteroids alert.
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Interstellar comet Borisov looks ordinary, making Oumuamua even weirder
One of the first profiles of interstellar comet Borisov has been published, and it looks about the same as most other comets. What it doesn't look like is the first interstellar object, Oumuamua, which made its closest pass by Earth exactly two years ago today.
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NASA Is Going to Visit a Gold and Precious Metal Asteroid Worth $700 Quintillion
We may be on the brink of a new gold rush, but not here on Earth. An asteroid made entirely of metal is the subject of a future NASA mission that may allow us to understand more about the Earth’s core and how planets formed. 16 Psyche is a massive asteroid that is particularly interesting due to its metallic composition, which has caused some people to speculate about its potential value.
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Nasa and ESA launch ‘planetary defence’ mission to protect Earth from doomsday asteroids
The European Space Agency has officially confirmed a mission designed to help humanity work out how to protect Earth from the danger posed by apocalypse asteroids. Space ministers from European nations gathered at a conference called Space19+ in Seville, Spain, where they approved the Hera asteroid mission, which will send spacecraft to a space rock called Didymos – a binary asteroid made up of two objects orbiting each other.
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No One Knows Why Rocks Are Exploding From Asteroid Bennu
For the last year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been circling a large asteroid named Bennu that regularly passes uncomfortably close to Earth. The spacecraft has been painstakingly mapping the asteroid’s rocky surface using a suite of cameras and other instruments that will help it determine where to land next year. Once NASA selects a final landing site, OSIRIS-REx will kiss Bennu just long enough to scoop up a sample to bring back to Earth in 2023.
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Expect More Interstellar Visitors Like 'Oumuamua
It sounds almost like science fiction: a tiny world that formed around another star, visiting our cosmic neighborhood for us to study. And yet that’s exactly what has happened, twice now as of the last few months. It will only happen more often this decade.
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NASA Warns Of 1,444-Foot City-Killer Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow
NASA warned that a massive potentially hazardous asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building is currently headed for Earth. If this space rock hits the planet, the blast would be powerful enough to wipe out an entire major city.
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Largest Planet-Killer Asteroid To Approach Earth This Month Arriving On Saturday
Apotentially hazardous asteroid that’s big enough to trigger a nuclear winter and mass extinction events on Earth following a collision will intersect the planet’s path this weekend. According to the data collected by NASA, the approaching asteroid is larger than the tallest man-made structure in the world.
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Astronomers Discover Eleven Dangerous Asteroids That Could Impact the Earth
Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their research with the help of an artificial neural network. The results have been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Astronomers Think They've Found a Whole Population of Rocks From Outside the Solar System
Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system, according to a new paper. The objects at the center of this investigation aren’t new discoveries. Called the Centaurs, they’re mysterious asteroids that orbit in the neighborhood of Jupiter and beyond. These objects take highly inclined orbits relative to the plane of the rest of the planets, and in at least one case, orbit the “wrong” way relative to the rest of the solar system’s objects.
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After the Dinosaur-Killing Impact, Soot Played a Remarkable Role in Extinction
The interstellar object (alternatively a comet or an asteroid) that killed the dinosaurs when it slammed into Earth didn't work alone. Researchers have shown previously that its after-effects, such as tidal waves and earthquakes, played an important role in the mass extinctions of three-fourths of plant and animal life. Now, new research suggests that one of the most important factors was the soot-rich smoke from fires sparked by the collision.
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Mile-wide asteroid set to pass within 3.9m miles of Earth
The rock known as (52768) 1998 OR2 was first spotted in 1998 and will pass by the planet on Wednesday
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NASA's About to Try Grabbing a Chunk of Asteroid to Bring to Earth—and You Can Watch
If you’ve seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars in a stripped-down rocket in hopes of his carefully-calculated trajectory taking him just close enough to his former crew for them to pluck him from the void of outer space and bring him safely home to Earth. There’s a multitude of complex physics involved, and who knows how true-to-science the details of the movie are...
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