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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Car-sized asteroid is giving Earth a really, really close shave. But don't worry.
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, ...
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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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During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon
What's more, scientists believe the migrating planets — primarily Jupiter — could have led to the formation of Earth's moon by destabilizing the orbit ... in the asteroid belt between Mars ...
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'Asteroid Kamo'oalewa: An extra Moon may be orbiting Earth'
scientists suggest that asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa, which shares its orbit with Earth, might actually be a fragment from the moon. This hypothesis is grounded in the discovery that Kamo'oalewa'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 ...