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Asteroid That Probably Caused the Tunguska 1908 Explosion Could Still Orbit the Sun
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May 20, 2020
Asteroid That Probably Caused the Tunguska 1908 Explosion Could Still Orbit the Sun
New research attributes the absence of debris from the asteroid that may have caused the large 1908 explosion over Tunguska…
Watch the Video of a Spacecraft Landing on an Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
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May 9, 2020
Watch the Video of a Spacecraft Landing on an Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away
An asteroid measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter called Ryugu (officially designated 162173 Ryugu) was visited by a spacecraft from…
A Bus-Sized Asteroid No One Saw Coming Got Too Close For Comfort
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May 6, 2020
A Bus-Sized Asteroid No One Saw Coming Got Too Close For Comfort
No one saw the bus-sized asteroid (2020 JJ) coming until it flew just past us, some 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometers)…
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Safely Pass Earth on Wednesday
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April 28, 2020
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid To Safely Pass Earth on Wednesday
An asteroid that appears to be wearing a protective mask as it travels across the solar system is set to…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Close-Up Video Of Asteroid Bennu 100 Million Kilometers Away
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April 17, 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Close-Up Video Of Asteroid Bennu 100 Million Kilometers Away
NASA has released images (vide) of its first flyby test of the sample collection event on asteroid Bennu, an asteroid…
A 4-Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth in April 2020
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March 31, 2020
A 4-Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth in April 2020
There’s a massive asteroid heading our way, and it will get here in April 2020. Luckily for us, the asteroid…
An Asteroid the Size of a Football Field Flew Dangerously Close To Earth 4 Days After Being Found
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March 25, 2020
An Asteroid the Size of a Football Field Flew Dangerously Close To Earth 4 Days After Being Found
An asteroid the size of a football field flew past Earth on March 23 – four days after its detection…
Japan Bombed An Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away, Here’s What They Found
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March 20, 2020
Japan Bombed An Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away, Here’s What They Found
The Japanese national Space Agency (JAXA) made its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft—in orbit around Ryugu—bomb the asteroid orbiting the sun at around…
One of the Brightest and Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to Pass Safely Past Earth
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March 5, 2020
One of the Brightest and Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to Pass Safely Past Earth
No, the asteroid will not impact Earth and presents no direct threat to mankind. The asteroid which is believed to…
Cosmic Mystery: Scientists Search for “Extraterrestrial Matter” Hoping to Solve Tunguska Explosion
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March 4, 2020
Cosmic Mystery: Scientists Search for “Extraterrestrial Matter” Hoping to Solve Tunguska Explosion
In 1908, a never-before-seen explosion took place in Tunguska, present-day Russia, believed to have been caused by the disintegration of…