Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
One piece of good news is that 2024 YR4 will miss in 2032, but by coming close it will be kicked out of its Alinda orbit. It ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Astronomers Uncover Hidden Birthplaces of Meteorites and Asteroids
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
A geologic map of the asteroid belt: Tracing meteorites back to their origins
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
Pallas family asteroids reveal unique blue spectroscopic profiles
Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
The employment of new computer technologies to calculate orbits revealed the effects of resonance to scientists in the 1970s. Resonance occurs when asteroids appear to move at the same ...
NASA’s $1.4 billion asteroid tracker to hunt ‘city-killer’ space rocks to save Earth from apocalypse
NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor space telescope is designed to spot and track potentially hazardous asteroids, offering ...
NASA warning: Massive asteroid twice the size of the Taj Mahal hurtling toward Earth at 77,282 km/h
Asteroid 2014 TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as ...
Scientists Followed 75 Meteorites and Mapped the Asteroid Belt’s Violent Origins
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...