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Animation Shows How A 10 Meter Asteroid Passes Earth Closer Than The Moon In Orbit
Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus. Orbit animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | mash mix by Space.
An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday
A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.'
Earth's new mini-moon belongs to a group of promising targets for future asteroid miners trying to send humans on deep-space missions
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, that's a prime opportunity.
Earth's Mini-Moon: Everything You Need to Know About Our Temporary Second 'Moon'
It's an asteroid named 2024 PT5, which entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be caught there until Nov. 25, before flying away back into the solar system. Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons.
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Earth’s 2nd ‘moon’ has arrived: What you need to know
The tiny asteroid will remain in Earth’s orbit from now until Nov. 25, when it will exit and continue its journey through the solar system. “There’s no way for small telesco
Earth Officially Has a Second Moon: Asteroid 2024 PT5 Captured in Temporary Orbit
In a fascinating cosmic event, Earth has temporarily captured a mini-moon, an asteroid now caught in Earth's gravitational pull. Named 2024 PT5, this tiny space rock was first spotted by astronomers in August 2024 and officially became Earth’s second moon on September 29,
Asteroid size of Golden Bridge approaching Earth
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Earth unlikely to be destroyed by doomsday asteroid swarms, study explains
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
Asteroid Apophis' path near Earth in 2029 offers rare lessons in defending planet
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...
Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...
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SpaceX rocket snaps amazing views of Earth during Hera asteroid probe launch (photos)
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's ...
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Spacecraft Dispatched to Asteroid That NASA Slammed in Previous Save-the-Earth Test
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has embarked on a two-year mission to study a small asteroid previously impacted ...
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Nukes (Yes, Nukes) Could Save Earth from an Asteroid
A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a ...