Avatarcrosscourierflipped into The Universal Curiosity ShopAsteroids Our Planet Protected Us. Earth ‘Bends’ An Asteroid Just 1,830 Miles Out, The Closest Flyby On Record Forbes - Jamie CarterIt has emerged that just a few days ago at 12:08 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 16, 2020 an asteroid was spotted that had just a few hours earlier gotten very (very) close to Earth. So close, in fact, that...
Ash Kingflipped into The Hot SheetsAsteroids An Asteroid Made a Record Close Pass of Earth on Friday 13, And We Didn't See It Coming verified_publisherScienceAlert - DAVID DICKINSON Wow. A low-flying space rock set a record last Friday (appropriately, the 13th), when 2020 VT4 passed just under 400 kilometers (250 miles) over the …
theGrioflipped into theGrioLiberal View An asteroid is heading to Earth just before Election day - TheGrio thegrio.com - Christian Spencer An asteroid is heading to Earth just before Election day The year 2020 is full of disasters. In addition to dealing with a pandemic, high tensions in …
Smithsonian Magazineflipped into ScienceAnimals Why Birds Survived, and Dinosaurs Went Extinct, After an Asteroid Hit Earth smithsonianmag.com - Riley Black Birds are the only dinosaurs left. That might seem strange. A pigeon or a penguin doesn’t look much like a Tyrannosaurus. But the connection is still …
Bruce Howardflipped into The Mad Scientist Health and Travel ClubAsteroids Psyche, an asteroid believed to be worth $10,000 quadrillion, is observed through Hubble Telescope in new study verified_publisherCNN(CNN) — A rare metallic asteroid about three times farther away from the sun than our planet could yield secrets about Earth's molten core, and scientists want to learn all about it. A new study published...
Michael Hinsleyflipped into Environment.Moon The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait Billions of years ago, Jupiter's planet-sized moon Ganymede got a helluva whack: Looking over data from probes that have visited the moon, scientists …
�� Kit Arrowsmithflipped into 🌓ASTRONOMY/COSMOLOGY 🌖Asteroids Why Is a Distant Asteroid Worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000? howstuffworks.com - by Patrick J. Kiger The asteroid 16 Psyche, which a NASA space probe is scheduled to visit in 2026, is a massive object about 140 miles (226 kilometers) in diameter. It …
Shane Leschasinflipped into scientificalOSIRIS-REx NASA's first attempt to sample an asteroid in space made a mess. It's the best mess ever, scientists say. Live Science - Tariq Malik A NASA spacecraft has really made a mess of things on the asteroid Bennu, and scientists are thrilled. The spacecraft, NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe, …
BBC Newsflipped into WorldSpacecraft Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule bbc.co.uk - By Paul RinconScientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space a week ago. It's the first significant sample of material...
Avatarhajaveebflipped into UusAsteroids "I'm pretty jazzed about this": NASA expert identifies mystery object once thought an asteroid verified_publisherCBS News The jig may be up for an "asteroid" that's expected to get nabbed by Earth's gravity and become a mini moon next month. Instead of a cosmic rock, the …
Mattflipped into Science and spaceMeteorites Mysterious meteorites came from an asteroid with a liquid metal core verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Michael Irving Most meteorites that fall to Earth belong to one of two broad groups – there are rocky ones, and there are metallic ones that were once molten iron. …
CNNflipped into Top StoriesAsteroids Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day verified_publisherCNN(CNN) — Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time. Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. On the day before the presidential vote,...
Matthew Tan Chee Hweeflipped into SpaceAn Asteroid Is Headed Towards Earth, Arrives Day Before The ElectionBy GIANT FREAKIN ROBOTAsteroids hitting Earth might be the most 2020 thing that’s happened so far this year and that’s really saying something. We’ve had pandemics, murder hornets, contested elections, lockdowns, hurricanes, wildfires, really you name it and it’s happened this year. Could it get worse? You bet it can.
Deannaflipped into Things You Didn't know! 🤔👏Asteroids Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day CNN(CNN) — Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time. Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. On the day before the presidential vote,...
ScienceAlertflipped into ScienceAlertAsteroids An Asteroid Just Made The Closest Earth Fly-by on Record, And We Didn't See It Coming verified_publisherScienceAlert - DAVE MOSHER & MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN A car-size asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of Earth on Sunday. That's a remarkably close shave – the closest ever recorded, …
Deseret Newsflipped into U.S. & WorldAsteroids These Indian teenagers discovered an asteroid that’s headed toward Earth deseret.com - Herb Scribner The Comet Neowise or C/2020 F3 is seen before sunrise over Balatonmariafurdo, Hungary, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. It passed closest to the Sun on July 3 …
A&Mflipped into BREAKING NEWSOSIRIS-REx Watch Live: A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Land on an Asteroid And Grab a Sample verified_publisherScienceAlert - ELIZABETH CANTWELL Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On October 20, a University of …
Jason Burnflipped into Advancement Of Science and TechnologyThe Odds (and Potential Damage) of an Asteroid Hitting EarthBy NerdistOf course the damage a given asteroid would inflict on Earth would depend wholly on its size. A six-mile-wide asteroid like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, for example, would have the same impact it did 66 million years ago; meaning it’d wipe out essentially all life on Earth’s surface.
ScienceAlertflipped into ScienceAlertAsteroids An Asteroid Trailing After Mars Could Actually Be The Stolen Twin of Our Moon verified_publisherScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill A distant asteroid trailing in the gravitational wake of Mars has been observed in greater detail than ever before, and the close-up reveals a …
MarketWatchU.S. Elections ‘Finally some good news’: An asteroid is heading our way on the eve of the presidential election verified_publisherMarketWatch - Shawn Langlois No, it won't look like this. Just end it already. That’s seems to be the reaction across the internet to the headlines that an asteroid might put us …
WIREDflipped into ScienceAsteroids For the Second Time Ever, an Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu marks a major milestone this weekend with the return of pristine space rock. Early on Sunday morning, …
The Hindu Groupflipped into The HinduIndia News Story of an asteroid that hit Rajasthan millions of years ago thehindu.com - Aswathi Pacha A breezy 110 km drive to the northeast of Kota in Rajasthan takes you to a huge impact crater that has kept researchers busy for years. Known as the …
Forbesflipped into InnovationAsteroids Asteroid News: An Object Approaching Earth’s Orbit Is Not An Asteroid [Infographic] Forbes - Kevin AndertonThe Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui has discovered an object that is headed for Earth’s orbit. This isn’t out of the ordinary except that this object is apparently not an asteroid. In fact, it may...
PeopleAsteroids NASA Says an Asteroid Is Projected to Head Towards Earth a Day Before Nov. 3 Election verified_publisherPeople - Eric TodiscoThere could be the possibility of an asteroid zooming toward Earth in addition to the variety of major events this year, including the coronavirus pandemic. NASA data indicates that an asteroid is projected...
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