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4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span tomorrow (Oct. 24)
A quartet of particularly hefty asteroids ... making it the largest of the four, will reach a minimum distance of 2.8 million ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is going to miss Earth, but the story doesn’t end there
City-killer asteroids the size of 2024 YR4 are fairly ... The highest ranking of an asteroid was 99942 Apophis, which briefly reached level 4 on the scale for a few days after its discovery ...
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Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
While NASA has made progress in tracking the largest asteroids, “There is still some chance that large comets from the outer solar system could appear and impact the Earth with warning times as ...
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This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...
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Asteroid Bennu still a concern: year of possible impact with Earth and the devastation it would cause
Bennu, one of the largest asteroids, has been the subject of research and simulations in the event of an impact with our planet. Bennu is 500 meters wide and astronomers have predicted a one in ...
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NASA announces SpaceX will launch NEO Surveyor to track killer asteroids
While most of the debris Earth encounters burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere, NASA is most concerned about the largest asteroids, some of which are miles wide.Dr. Joshua Colwell, a planetary ...