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WATCH: Double Asteroid’ Zooming by Earth at 43,000 mph Captured in Amazing Photo
A unique “double asteroid” was photographed by a powerful telescope as it whizzed by Earth last month at over 43,000 mph. […]
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NASA’s First Planetary Defense Technology Demonstration to Collide with Asteroid in 2022
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – will get one chance to hit its target, the small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos. […]
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Large, Near-Earth Asteroid Captured with NASA Radar
The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the understanding of its orbit. […]
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VIDEO: Asteroid To Fly Past Earth Sunday Afternoon Clocking In At 76,000 MPH, Say NASA Experts
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC). […]
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NASA: Researchers Simulate Asteroid Impacts to Help Identify Possible Life-Threatening Events
When an asteroid struck the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013, the blast from the asteroid’s shock wave broke windows and damaged buildings as far away as 58 miles (93 kilometers), injuring more than 1,200 people. […]
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NASA Answers The Question: How Does A Speck of Light Become An Asteroid?
On the first day of the year 1801, Italian astronomer Gioacchino Giuseppe Maria Ubaldo Nicolò Piazzi found a previously uncharted “tiny star” near the constellation of Taurus. […]
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VIDEO: Asteroid Size of Bus Zoomed Past Earth Thursday Night, First Discovered March 25
An asteroid 2 feet wide came closer to Earth than the moon last night. The object, named 2017 FJ101, passed Earth within 202,000 miles. […]
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NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Completes Robotic Design Milestone
Following a key program review, NASA approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to proceed to the next phase of design and development for the mission’s robotic segment. ARM is a two-part mission that will integrate robotic and crewed spacecraft operations in the proving ground of deep space to demonstrate key capabilities needed for NASA’s journey to Mars. […]
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VIDEO: NASA Preps To Launch First Mission To Return Sample Of An Asteroid To Earth
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth. […]
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NASA: There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth
Numerous recent blogs and web postings are erroneously claiming that an asteroid will impact Earth, sometime between Sept. 15 and 28, 2015. […]
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Will An Asteroid Hit Earth In October 2017?
On Oct. 12, 2017, the asteroid 2012 TC4 is slated to whizz by Earth dangerously close. […]
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Asteroid That Flew By Earth Had A Moon, Says NASA
Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86. […]
