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In a Groundbreaking Discovery NASA Scientists Can Now Track Asteroid and Meteor Strikes on Earth Better
In a Groundbreaking Discovery NASA Scientists Can Now Track Asteroid and Meteor Strikes on Earth Better Space enthusiasts and ...
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially hazardous object (PHO), meaning it could pose a collision risk to ...
Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
EurekAlert!10d
SwRI-led modeling assesses age of upcoming asteroid flyby target
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...
Phys.org10d
Model suggests asteroid Donaldjohanson formed 150 million years ago
Lucy's target is a common type of asteroid, composed of silicate rocks ... very far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively ...
Arizona Daily Sun28d
Astronomers see lower risk of newly found asteroid hitting Earth
WASHINGTON — New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated ...