NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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Asteroid the size of Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth today
A huge asteroid almost the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth today, NASA has warned ... In November 2021, the space agency launched the DART mission which sent a satellite ...
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100-foot asteroid set to buzz Earth today; NASA reveals how close it will get
While that is comforting, just know that another space rock, Asteroid 2021 FD1 is also approaching Earth, and it is set to come even closer today. At its closest point to Earth, it will be just ...
Woo! Science: Asteroids, satellites and a sneaky solar eclipse are what's 'up'
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris ... presented the images during a webcast today. The images presented show Deimos ...
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Eyes on Apophis: ISRO is tracking 'God of Destruction' asteroid with a potential 2029 Earth encounter
Apophis, a large asteroid measuring 340-450 meters ... Apophis initially raised alarm due to its size and orbit. A 2021 flyby reassured scientists there’s no immediate threat for at least ...
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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over ... position is becoming an issue," the company wrote in an update today (March 6). AstroForge built Odin in less than 10 months ...
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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
Languages: English and Italian. NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid dashing past Earth today at a speed of 38,922 miles per hour. The space rock, known as 2025 DU2, is estimated to be ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 ...
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What is 2025 DU2? Massive 160-ft asteroid dashing toward Earth today at 62,650 kmph
Asteroid 2025 DU2, measuring 160 feet wide and travelling at 62,650 km/h, will pass Earth on March 6 at a safe distance of 542,000 km. We all know that a large asteroid is heading towards Earth ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...