Look up (with a telescope): 2,000-foot long asteroid to pass by earth Monday
The large asteroid labeled 2013 NK4 orbits the sun every 378 days, according to NASA. It's 2,000 feet long and should safely ...
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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago, a smashup that created the moon's ...
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Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
Gialich, whose childhood love of space led him into engineering and a job at the satellite launch company Virgin Orbit before ... harness an asteroid and bring it into Earth’s orbit for mining ...
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Look up (with a telescope): 2,000-foot long asteroid to pass by earth Monday
The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the ... called doomsday asteroid" set to pass closer than Earth’s artificial satellites ...