Pin ItemailprintDon’t look now, but we’re going to have a pretty close shave in about an hour. Asteroid 2012 BX34 will be blowing past Earth today, but it doesn’t pose much of a threat despite the fact that it will be closer than our moon. The newly-discovered asteroid, which is about the size of a [...]
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On Thanksgiving Day, you may want to give thanks for the fact that we (hopefully) haven’t all been smashed to bits. NASA has just discovered a new Near-Earth Object (NEO), dubbed Asteroid 2011 WP4 which will graze our planet on Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. The asteroid was just discovered on Friday, November 18, [...]
Another day, another close call with an asteroid. On Tuesday, asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass the Earth within the moon’s orbit, giving scientists a unique, close-up view of a space rock. On November 8, 2005 YU55 will come within about 201,700 miles of Earth, according to NASA. That’s 0.85 the distance from Earth to the [...]
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A NASA spacecraft currently in orbit around the asteroid Vesta is uncovering some amazing new details about the huge space rock, including a gigantic mountain that’s taller than our own Mt. Everest. NASA’s Dawn probe has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta since mid-July, when it arrived in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. [...]
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Well, this could be close. It sure does seem like Earth is getting a lot of fly-bys from close asteroids lately. In February, we had our closest near miss ever when asteroid 2011 CQ1 avoided impact with out little, blue planet by just 3,405 miles. Today, we will have another close call as asteroid 2011 [...]
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Whew, that was close…again. Back in 2004, NASA scientists announced there was a slight chance that the 99942 Apophis Asteroid, which is bigger than two football fields, would crash into Earth and destroy all life as we know it in 2029. Suddenly, the yields on those 30-year bonds didn’t seem to matter so much. Later [...]
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The Earth is about to get buzzed by two asteroids within a 12-hour period. A small asteroid came close to the (within the moon’s distance) early Wednesday morning a second asteroid will do the same later today. The asteroids don’t pose a threat to anyone on the ground, nor will they be visible to the [...]
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On October 8, 2009, a large asteroid smashed into Earth’s atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The resulting explosion could be heard by monitoring stations some 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario. Many scientists and experts are concerned that this asteroid wasn’t spotted by any Earth-based telescopes [...]
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