Asteroid 2020 KY is bigger than a double decker bus, and will shoot safely by the planet at a distance of 4.1 million miles.
Come June 11, two space rocks will swing by Earth - asteroid 2020 JQ2, which is roughly the size of a passenger plane and will by 3.6 million miles from Earth, and asteroid 2020 JS1, which will get very close at a distance of 2.3 million miles.
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NASA said on its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website: “NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.
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Asteroid news: Huge fireball shoots across US 'It was massive' | Science | News |
One user, Steven, said: "I have seen fireballs before and they have left glowing contrails and were mostly white.
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Another, called Elizabeth, added: "I was worried that it was a bomb or something because it was extremely bright and appeared in the atmosphere, then fell from the sky at a diagonal angle."
Asteroids and meteors produce a bright explosion of fire when they hit the atmosphere as it is the first time the space rock has ever met resistance.
New study says dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck Earth at 'deadliest possible' angle |
“For the dinosaurs, the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened … because it put more hazardous debris into the upper atmosphere and scattered it everywhere, the very thing that led to a nuclear winter.”
All of this is according to a study published May 26, 2020 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications ,
The – from Imperial College London, the University of Freiburg, and the University of Texas at Austin – examined the shape and subsurface structure of the Chicxulub meteorite crater in what’s now Mexico. Afterwards, they used that geophysical data to create computer models of the event. Their computer simulations helped them diagnose the impact angle and direction of the incoming meteor. They said in a statement that the new models are:
Large asteroid to pass Earth on June 6 | | qconline.com
Asteroid 2002 NN4 is expected to make a close flyby of our planet this weekend. The size of this asteroid was enough to grab NASA's attention.
Many things are taking place:
An asteroid the size of six football fields will speed by Earth Saturday night - CNN
Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta | The Source |
The formation of our solar system was a messy affair. Most of the material that existed before its formation — material formed around other, long-dead stars — was vaporized, then recondensed into new materials. But some grains of that material, formed before the sun's birth, still persist.
These "stardust" grains arrived on Earth inside primitive meteorites. New Washington University in St. Louis research led by Nan Liu, an assistant research professor in physics and the Laboratory for Space Sciences in Arts & Sciences, shows that stardust was also delivered to another planet-like body in the solar system, asteroid 4 Vesta, by micrometeoroids that also carried water.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has taken its closest look yet at a potential sample site on
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has taken its closest look yet at a potential sample site on asteroid Bennu.
The probe has been orbiting the asteroid since 2018 and has been preparing to collect a chunk of asteroid rock , which it will bring back to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx is set to take the sample from the site named Nightingale on Oct. 20, 2020, but on May 26 the spacecraft took a dive toward Osprey, the backup sample collection site for the mission. OSIRIS-REx dropped down to just 820 feet (250 meters) above the site, which is the closest the spacecraft has been to Osprey.
5 asteroids to pass by earth today –Here's all you want to know | Science News | Zee News
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun, but their orbits bring them into Earth's neighborhood - within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit.
New Delhi: Not one or two, but five asteroids are flying by Earth on June 2, international space agency NASA has confirmed.
The 2020 KF, biggest among them all, at 144-foot, will be flying at 24,000mph at 12:00pm EDT. The 105 feet wide 2020 KJ1, will fly past the planet at 11,000 miles per hour at 2:57pm EDT.
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Rocks on asteroid Bennu appear to be cracking as they heat up and cool down — a process called thermal fracturing.… https://t.co/ycS2w6hA3C OSIRISREx (from Asteroid Bennu) Tue Jun 09 12:29:08 +0000 2020
In other news, no locust, tremors or asteroid strikes...just a gently used tropical storm pushing up the Mississipp… https://t.co/Cs4Ael8pXM pdouglasweather (from Minnesota) Tue Jun 09 19:03:18 +0000 2020
Ancient asteroid impacts created the ingredients of life on Earth and Mars @tohoku_univ @SciReports https://t.co/syVPt9B5Io physorg_com Mon Jun 08 12:38:23 +0000 2020
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