A skyscraper-sized ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid will zip through Earth’s orbit on Halloween0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 31, 2022
The asteroid’s upper size estimate is just short of the world’s tallest building.
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Scientists Find Evidence Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Caused Mile-High Tsunami0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- July 22, 2021
The hidden fragment, dating as old as 1.3 billion years, is helping scientists trace the history of the mysterious “lost continent” of Zealandia.
How did you spend your week? NASA pretended to crash an asteroid into Earth.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 4, 2021
More than a year into a very real crisis, experts gathered virtually to confront a second emergency, a potential asteroid impact — but this disaster, fortunately, was entirely hypothetical.
The strange story of 2020 SO: How an asteroid turned into rocket junk and the NASA scientist who figured it out0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2020
As soon as he saw the data, Paul Chodas knew something was strange about the near-Earth object that had been designated 2020 SO.
Mysterious meteorites came from an asteroid with a liquid metal core0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2020
Most meteorites that fall to Earth belong to one of two broad groups – there are rocky ones, and there are metallic ones that were once molten iron. But one puzzling group of meteorites appears to belong to both camps at once, and now scientists have determined that the parent body had a rocky shell and a liquid metal core, which likely generated a strong magnetic field.
Nasa names asteroid it will use as target practice to keep planet safe from impact0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 27, 2020
It will be called Dimorphos, and is approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Egypt
Is Earth’s Doomsday Near? NASA Warns Killer Asteroid May Arrive on Earth in 5 Days0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2020
A large asteroid near Earth, which is predicted to approach the planet on Saturday, Feb. 15, is set one kilometer apart. An area rock of this size is estimated to kill millions in the region in just one stroke. The expected phenomenon would trigger a disaster on a global scale.
What Would Happen If A ‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Hits London? Scientists Discuss Grim Scenario0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 8, 2019
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and cosmochemist Natalie Starkey recently discussed what would happen if the asteroid that caused the Chelyabinsk impact event hit a heavily-populated city instead.
Proposed NASA SmallSat Mission Could Be First To Visit Pallas, Our Third Largest Asteroid0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2019
Pallas, our solar system’s third largest and wholly unexplored asteroid, is the target for a potential SmallSat NASA flyby mission for possible launch in 2022. This remnant protoplanet, in fact, remains the largest unexplored planetary body inside the orbit of Neptune.
NASA asteroid SHOCK: How scientist plans to SAVE mankind from HUGE space rock0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
A SCIENTIST revealed during a documentary how he could save the Earth from a devastating asteroid after NASA admitted the space rock could make a direct impact in the future.
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