ASTEROID FLYING BY EARTH HAS A MOON0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
Yesterday, Jan. 7th, near-Earth asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past the Earth-Moon system only 2.8 million miles away.
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NASA Is Going To Crash a Satellite Into an Asteroid—On Purpose0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2019
On the off chance that giant asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth—and Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are unavailable—NASA is putting together a backup plan
Hippo-shaped asteroid skims past Earth on closest approach for 400 years0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 4, 2019
Mile-long rock shaped like water-loving pachyderm is rotating lazily through space under close watch by scientists who feared it could be on a collision course
Mile-wide, potentially hazardous asteroid 2003 SD220 to swoosh by Earth on Saturday0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 26, 2018
A potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), designated 2003 SD220 (or 163899), is expected to fly by the Earth on Saturday, December 22, at around 1:04 UTC.
NASA releases first data from OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2018
Take a peek at asteroid Bennu: porous, blue, and with a water-rich parent body.
Near-Earth asteroid removed from risk list0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 10, 2018
European Space Agency cancels 2026 collision risk – leaving just 794 possibilities. Andrew Masterson reports.
Asteroid-sampling mission zeroes in on tiny space rock0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2018
US spacecraft aims to return the largest trove of space dirt to Earth since NASA’s final Apollo mission in the 1970s.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has finally arrived at asteroid Bennu0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2018
Scientists hope the probe will reveal if such space rocks helped kick-start life on Earth
Watch NASA arrive at the asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2018
NASA’s asteroid-chaser will reach its target, Bennu, on Dec. 3 and you don’t want to miss a thing.
Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 15, 2018
It is the first impact crater discovered under one of Earth’s ice sheets, according to the scientists who found it.
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