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Asteroid 2024 PT5 Linked to Lunar Surface, Reveals Planetary Defense Insights
Asteroid 2024 PT5, sized like a school bus, passed Earth in January at 1.1 million miles. Research suggests it originated from the moon, ejected thousands of years ago by an impact. Spectral analysis matched it to Apollo 14 lunar rocks, ruling out artificial origins. This is the second known lunar asteroid after 469219 Kamo’oalewa. The study hint...
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Building-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth At Alarming Speed Today, Warns NASA
Asteroid 2024 JV33 is part of the Apollo group, a category of asteroids known for their frequent crossings of Earth's orbit.
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Airplane-Sized Asteroid Racing Toward Earth At 30,381 km/h, NASA Reports
Comparable in size to an airplane and traveling at 30,381 km/h, this Apollo asteroid will safely miss Earth by 3.4 million kilometers.
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220-Foot NF 2024 Asteroid Racing Towards Earth, NASA Alerts
NASA also tracks other near-Earth asteroids and is developing the DART mission to test asteroid deflection technologies.
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A 250-Feet Asteroid Coming Near Earth At 63,683 Kmph. All You Need To Know
Asteroid 2024 JB2 is a part of the Apollo group and has an astonishing speed of 63,683 kilometres per hour, NASA's CNEOS data stated.
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NASA OSIRIS-REx Probe to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu on October 20
After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.
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Large Asteroid to Fly By Earth Next Week: Here's What You Need to Know
The asteroid has been identified as 216258 (2006 WH1), and it has been classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), which means it is capable of approaching Earth at a dangerously close distance.
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NASA Set To Grab A Piece Of Asteroid That May Hit Earth 200 Years Later
For the past two years, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has sailed across the solar system by the light of the stars. Like ancient mariners and the Apollo astronauts, it needed the constancy of the constellations to navigate the dark unknown. All that changed Monday, when the NASA probe finally reached its target, an Empire State Building-sized asteroid ...
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NASA Chasing Down Asteroid To Scoop Up, Bring Back Samples
NASA is going after an asteroid this week like never before.
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Asteroid 2024 PT5 Linked to Lunar Surface, Reveals Planetary Defense Insights
Asteroid 2024 PT5, sized like a school bus, passed Earth in January at 1.1 million miles. Research suggests it originated from the moon, ejected thousands of years ago by an impact. Spectral analysis matched it to Apollo 14 lunar rocks, ruling out artificial origins. This is the second known lunar asteroid after 469219 Kamo’oalewa. The study hint...
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Building-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth At Alarming Speed Today, Warns NASA
Asteroid 2024 JV33 is part of the Apollo group, a category of asteroids known for their frequent crossings of Earth's orbit.
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Airplane-Sized Asteroid Racing Toward Earth At 30,381 km/h, NASA Reports
Comparable in size to an airplane and traveling at 30,381 km/h, this Apollo asteroid will safely miss Earth by 3.4 million kilometers.
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220-Foot NF 2024 Asteroid Racing Towards Earth, NASA Alerts
NASA also tracks other near-Earth asteroids and is developing the DART mission to test asteroid deflection technologies.
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A 250-Feet Asteroid Coming Near Earth At 63,683 Kmph. All You Need To Know
Asteroid 2024 JB2 is a part of the Apollo group and has an astonishing speed of 63,683 kilometres per hour, NASA's CNEOS data stated.
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NASA OSIRIS-REx Probe to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu on October 20
After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.
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Large Asteroid to Fly By Earth Next Week: Here's What You Need to Know
The asteroid has been identified as 216258 (2006 WH1), and it has been classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), which means it is capable of approaching Earth at a dangerously close distance.
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NASA Set To Grab A Piece Of Asteroid That May Hit Earth 200 Years Later
For the past two years, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has sailed across the solar system by the light of the stars. Like ancient mariners and the Apollo astronauts, it needed the constancy of the constellations to navigate the dark unknown. All that changed Monday, when the NASA probe finally reached its target, an Empire State Building-sized asteroid ...
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NASA Chasing Down Asteroid To Scoop Up, Bring Back Samples
NASA is going after an asteroid this week like never before.
