“In the Gulf of Mexico, over 500 miles south of Miami, an asteroid seven miles wide – the size of Mount Everest – has crashed into the water, kicking off a chain reaction of horrifying disasters across the planet.
“In Los Angeles, a cloud of ash cloaks the city, minutes later, a massive earthquake shakes Southern California to its core.
“At a magnitude of 10.8, it’s the most powerful in recorded history, a shockwave radiates from the impact site in all directions.
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Yes, an asteroid really did wipe out the dinosaurs, study finds - CNN
(CNN) The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago with the ultimate bad day, not a prolonged period of climate change wrought by volcanic activity, according to new research.
An asteroid's moon got a name so NASA can bump it off its course | Science News
Dimorphos currently orbits Didymos once every 12 hours. By hitting it with DART, "you're actually changing the orbital period enough — by, say, 10 minutes or 20 minutes — which could be observed even from the ground," Tsiganis says. Telescopes on Earth will track the immediate aftermath of the crash, and the European Space Agency will send its Hera probe to Dimorphos in 2024 to ensure that the moonlet asteroid is following its new intended path.
Study: Dinosaur Extinction Caused By Asteroid Impact - WLTZ
Researchers found that asteroids impacted the earth 66 million years ago, blocking out the sun and creating a permanent winter for years.
The only dinosaurs to survive were the ones that went on to become birds, according to the study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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But this study suggests volcanoes and their warming properties may have actually helped restore habitats after the asteroid strike.
Many things are taking place:
Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking
Gaia charts the galaxy by repeatedly scanning the entire sky. Over the course of its planned mission, it observed each of its more than one billion target stars around 70 times to study how their position and brightness change over time.
The stars are so far from Earth that their movements between images are very small, hence why Gaia has to measure their positions so accurately to even notice a difference. However, sometimes Gaia spots faint light sources that move considerably from one image of a certain region of the sky to the next, or are even only spotted in a single image before disappearing.
One galaxy, two asteroids
Asteroid Day 2020: Goddesses Of Astrology Meaning
International Asteroid Day: A look at NASA's first planetary defense mission - CNN
(CNN) In two years, NASA will demonstrate its asteroid deflection technology on the newly named Dimorphos, a moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency's first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of planetary defense.
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NASA is going to crash a spacecraft into this asteroid to see if it's possible to deflect space rocks on track to s… https://t.co/cFLqBNpxbZ ScienceNews (from Washington, DC) Wed Jul 01 11:15:00 +0000 2020
Today is international #AsteroidDay☄️! To mark this @UN day, experts from our #PlanetaryDefense Coordination Office… https://t.co/JRjCcfPMhb NASA Tue Jun 30 17:16:16 +0000 2020
Here's the trailer for our NEW documentary 'Asteroid Hunters,' narrated by Daisy Ridley, coming to #IMAX theatres t… https://t.co/wdcCwbXdM0 IMAX (from Worldwide) Wed Jul 01 19:37:01 +0000 2020
Volcanic activity could have actually helped life bounce back by warming the planet after years of catastrophic dar… https://t.co/Uy0z72zKmw NatGeo (from Global) Wed Jul 01 00:17:23 +0000 2020
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