Huge Asteroid

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  Huge 91-Metre-Wide Asteroid Heading Towards Earth, Warns NASA

  NASA is tracking the movement of the huge rock, named 2013 WV44, which measures 160 metres in diameter.

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  Giant Asteroid To Fly Close To Earth Tomorrow, Has The Potential To Wipe Out A City

  Astronomers with the International Asteroid Warning Network are using this close approach to learn as much as possible about 2023 DZ2 in a short time period.

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  Asteroid 2020 ND, 160 Metres in Diameter, to Fly Past Earth on July 24

  A huge asteroid is making its way toward Earth and it will pass by our planet next week. Dubbed as Asteroid 2020 ND, it is classified as Near-Earth Object (NEO) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by NASA.

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  Massive Asteroid to Zip Past Earth Tomorrow, NASA Says ‘It Poses No Threat’

  A huge ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid is expected to fly past Earth tomorrow. The asteroid 1998 OR2 is said to be more than a mile-long, and if it were to strike the planet, it could cause extreme havoc.

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  In A First, Spacecraft Circling The Sun Spots Huge Trail Of Asteroid Dust

  Once there was an asteroid that flew too close to the sun. It was small and dark and rocky, too fragile to withstand such scorching conditions. The asteroid cracked, releasing a burst of dust and debris. Though it continued traveling along its orbit, it dropped millions of fragments in its wake.

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  Huge Asteroid, Slightly Smaller Than Burj Khalifa, Set to Pass by Earth Next Month

  A new asteroid is set to fly past Earth in September. Dubbed as Asteroid 2000 QW7, it will come as close as 5.3 million kms to Earth.

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  Asteroid Will Hit Earth Eventually, We Have No Defence Yet: Elon Musk

  A huge asteroid will eventually hit the humanity and there will be no way out, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has predicted.

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  NASA Unveils Program Aimed At Preventing An Asteroid Apocalypse

  Among Earth's natural disasters-hurricanes, floods, earthquakes-the one humans probably ponder least is asteroids, huge objects zipping through our solar system at ludicrous speeds.

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  NASA May Build 'HAMMER' Spacecraft To Blow Up Earth-Bound Asteroid

  Preparing itself to deal with a potential asteroid impact, NASA has drawn up plans to build a huge nuclear spacecraft that is capable of shunting or blowing up dangerous space rocks and safeguarding life on Earth.

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  466 Million-Year-Old Space Collision Is Still Raining Shrapnel Down On Earth

  Roughly 466 million years ago, something huge exploded in space and sent shrapnel raining down on Earth. It was the biggest such cataclysm to happen in our celestial neighborhood in some 3 billion years.

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  Glass Beads Found In Australia Point To Huge Asteroid Hit

  Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago -- making it the second oldest known to have hit the planet and larger than the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs.

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  90-Million-Tonne Asteroid to Pass by Earth, 30 Times Closer Than Nearest Planet

  Stargazers are in for a treat as a huge asteroid is set to pass by the Earth at about 11 pm GMT on Sunday. People in India can watch it live on the internet at 4 am on Monday.

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  Huge Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on Monday

  An asteroid up to 1,800 feet (550 meters) across is headed Earth's way. But don't worry: It will miss us by 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers), about three times the distance between Earth and the moon.

• Ancient asteroid strike in Australia 'changed face of earth'

  A strike from a big asteroid more than 300 million years ago left a huge impact zone buried in Australia and changed the face of the earth, researchers said on Friday.

• Huge asteroid to fly close to earth, may destroy satellites

  A 150-foot-wide, 140,000 tonne asteroid may come so close to Earth early next year that it might destroy communications satellites.