NASA issues warning as potentially hazardous asteroid bigger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt makes its closest pass in 100 years tomorrow; here's how you can watch it
NASA is closely monitoring a massive asteroid as it prepares to make a rare close approach to Earth. The space rock, known as ...
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'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...
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Should giant asteroid head for Earth, Hawaii is first line of defense
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered an asteroid in 2024 that had a small chance of colliding with the Earth in 2032. The asteroid, 2024 YR4 ...
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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D
In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...
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Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.
The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably ... consequences of smashing something into a space rock at roughly 14,760 mph. As the science writer ...
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Astronomers watching 'city-killer' asteroid to determine chance of striking Earth in 2032
GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in ... Some asteroids are composed of rock, some iron, some are even made ...
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Jobs data is 'just another asteroid' amid nonstop barrage: BlackRock
Friday's jobs report continued the nonstop flow of information in recent weeks, some of which has clashed with other data, said Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed ...
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Asteroid YR4
NEWS SOUNDBITE: An asteroid is right now hurtling toward Earth. NEWS SOUNDBITE: A record high chance of impact. NEWS SOUNDBITE: A city killer. NEWS SOUNDBITE: It's a beautiful rock. And its gonna ...
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From Danger to Dismissed: How Scientists Ruled Out This Asteroid Threat
Scientists initially feared asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032, but new data reduced its impact risk to near zero. The case highlights the evolving accuracy of planetary defense efforts. Credit ...
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Odin probe blasts off on SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid for possible mining mission
A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...
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This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
But sometimes a space rock gets flagged as a potential threat because there is a slim chance that it may collide with Earth. A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ...