A truck-sized asteroid will pass near Earth on Thursday in one of the closest approaches to our planet ever recorded, NASA said, emphasizing that it poses no danger. Asteroid 2023 BU, which was recently...
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This Asteroid Has Survived For 4 Billion Years. That Could Be a Huge Problem : ScienceAlert
A vast amount of rocks and other material are hurtling around our Solar System as asteroids and comets. If one of these came towards us, could we successfully prevent the collision between an asteroid...
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Mineral Samples May Have Just Revealed The Mysterious Birthplace of Asteroid Ryugu : ScienceAlert
Mineral samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu continue to be a treasure trove of interesting information for scientists, with a new analysis revealing the object’s birth place. It turns out Ryugu originated towards the...
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Giant Asteroid Unleashed a Devastating Martian Megatsunami, Evidence Suggests : ScienceAlert
Multiple lines of evidence suggest that Mars wasn’t always the desiccated dustbowl it is today. In fact, the red planet was once so wet and sloshy that a megatsunami was unleashed, crashing across the...
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Two Minerals Never Seen Before in Nature Discovered In an Asteroid That Fell to Earth : ScienceAlert
An analysis of a huge chunk of space rock that fell to Earth in Somalia has revealed materials never before seen in nature. Two new minerals have been analyzed and named, and a possible...
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Scientists Glimpse Incoming Asteroid Just Hours Before It Makes Impact : ScienceAlert
For just the sixth time in recorded history, astronomers managed to catch a glimpse of an asteroid before it slammed into Earth. On 19 November 2022, nearly four hours before impact, the Catalina Sky...
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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Unleashed History’s Most Terrifying Tsunami : ScienceAlert
The asteroid that pummeled Earth 66 million years ago transformed life on this watery planet, decimating the dinosaurs and bringing on a new era in biology. The asteroid also created a monstrous tsunami thousands...
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‘Potentially Hazardous’ Monster Asteroid Is The Largest Seen in Years : ScienceAlert
Astronomers peering into the twilight sky have found three previously unknown near-Earth asteroids. One of which is the largest potentially hazardous asteroid discovered in eight years. It measures roughly 1.5 kilometers (nearly 1 mile)...
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Destroyed Observatory Issues Final Asteroid Warning After Fatal Collapse
After collapsing into pieces in December 2020, the mighty Arecibo Observatory has a final parting gift for humanity – and it’s a doozy. Using data collected by Arecibo between December 2017 and December 2019,...
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