During routine survey operations for hazardous #asteroids for @NASA's #PlanetaryDefense Coordination Office, the @fallingstarIfA ATLAS-MLO telescope spotted China's Tianwen-1 on its way to #Mars. Bon Voyage Tianwen-1! pic.twitter.com/Kc5SQjljgc July 24, 2020
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An observatory affiliated with NASA's quest to identify potentially hazardous asteroids spotted something equally speedy but not quite as natural: a spacecraft bound for Mars.
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Experts Say Near Earth Asteroid Due To Come Within 300 Miles Of Earth In November Not A Concern
CBS Detroit – There’s a video on Youtube saying we are about to have another “very-close encounter” with an asteroid. What the Jet Propulsion Lab in California calls “Near-Earth-Objects” or NEOs. Now keep in mind asteroids have been coming close or have hit our planet for millions of years, and many do daily.
However, one Youtube video says an asteroid called “ 2018 VP1 “, which is about 6 feet diameter will pass within about 300 miles of our planet on November 2, 2020. However, some experts are saying this nothing to fear. First off there’s the math, asteroid “2018 VP1” is projected to come 0.02 times the distance between the earth and the moon. Given that the moon is 239,000 miles away, 0.02 equates to 4,780 miles. Now your thinking that’s far off right?
Asteroid discovered by UH astronomers to pass by Earth | KHON2
HONOLULU (KHON2) — An asteroid that UH astronomers discovered will be passing by Earth on Monday, July 27.
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HONOLULU (KHON2) -- On July 23, 2020, NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured this impressive view of the eye of Hurricane Douglas as it spun over the Pacific Ocean. The first hurricane of the 2020 eastern Pacific season, the storm rapidly intensified on Thursday and had a maximum sustained wind speed of 120 mph at the last report, making it a major Category-3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
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Video claims asteroid impact coming in November, but experts weigh in - mlive.com
A video on Youtube claims a forecast of near-Earth objects (NEOs) shows one of these may hit Earth in November.
The J et Propulsion Laboratory website shows the near-Earth objects and their forecasted distance from Earth as they pass by.
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On November 2, 2020 an object labeled "2018 VP1″ is currently projected to come very close to Earth. The video is a little off on its math. Even so, Mike Murray of the Delta College Planetarium in Bay City, says don't worry.
Comet Neowise's surprise appearance highlights Earth's vulnerability - Business Insider
A welcome distraction has turned the world's eyes to the sky this week. Comet Neowise, a 3-mile-wide chunk of space ice, is rocketing past our planet, creating a spectacle in the night: a brilliant ball of white light with long, colorful tails.
The comet is a benign and beautiful sight, but it highlights a global vulnerability. Tens of thousands of potentially dangerous objects regularly careen past Earth undetected, and some of them inevitably crash into it.
Japan's Hayabusa-2 asteroid sampling mission to study another asteroid before return to Earth-
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 that was launched in December 2014 to study the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu and return samples from it to Earth, is about to return after a six-year-long mission. However, scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) haven't taken to relaxing just yet, with the issue of its safe landing still to be monitored for the mission to be a success.
Earlier, JAXA and the Australian Space Agency had given out a joint statement announcing that the capsule of Hayabusa 2, returning with the sample from Ryugu, will land on earth on 6 December 2020, at the Woomera Range Complex in South Australia.
Designing better asteroid explorers: New research provides important information in improving the
Missions like the OSIRIS-REx mission to Asteroid Bennu and the Hyabusa II mission to Ryugu, are often conducted by robotic explorers that send images back to Earth showing complex asteroid surfaces with cracked, perched boulders and rubble fields.
In order to better understand the behavior of asteroid material and design successful robotic explorers, researchers must first understand exactly how these explorers impact the surface of asteroids during their touchdown.
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NASA asteroid camera spots China's Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth https://t.co/TGwfU4QRIM https://t.co/z7vFc2kt26 SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Fri Jul 24 22:16:36 +0000 2020
What will happen after @NASA's DART spacecraft finally collides with its target asteroid, Dimorphos? With myriad po… https://t.co/DR9XULb3Ef JHUAPL (from Laurel, Maryland) Sat Jul 25 02:15:03 +0000 2020
The asteroid has been described by NASA as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, warning th… https://t.co/hL0xz4Y6Eo news18dotcom (from India) Fri Jul 24 22:15:00 +0000 2020
Asteroid 1980JE is named 3834 Zappafrank in honor of Frank Zappa #OnThisDay in 1994. 3834 Zappafrank is an asteroid… https://t.co/D4KBznMkOV zappa (from L.A., CA) Wed Jul 22 08:01:53 +0000 2020
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