The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Not Have Been As Deadly as We Thought
Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...
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Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
Study finds that Earth's small asteroid visitor is likely a chunk of moon rock
A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...
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5 times asteroids struck the Earth's surface in recent history
While just the idea of an asteroid ... The impact created a crater about 1.2 kilometers in diameter and 170 meters deep. It is one of the very best-preserved impact sites on Earth and is a ...
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Asteroid Apophis and its End-Time Message
The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
Advanced observatories, such as the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... of matching future rocks to specific lunar sites. These efforts could illuminate the processes that shape ...
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Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a ... Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon mission ...
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What If The Solar System Had a Super-Earth? Here's What Would Happen.
Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.
NASA: An asteroid of 820-foot size speeding toward Earth; Check date and time
NASA warns of a giant asteroid, 2024 WY70, approaching Earth at 36,606 km/h. At 820 feet wide and as big as a football ...
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A piece of the moon? Small asteroid may be a lunar rock ejected by impact
by a telescope in South Africa that is part of the University of Hawai’i’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Kareta’s team followed up with observations using the Lowell ...