Dr. Paul W. Chodas, the director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told CBS News on Tuesday that the asteroid will be too faint to see with the naked eye, but viewers with 12-inch telescopes should be able to spot it. "It will be moving quite fast, and the amateur would have to know precisely where to look to find it" by using a star map, Chodas said.
SW 2020 will get pretty close to Earth, but Chodas said it has "no chance at all" of colliding with us. He said it will come within about 14,000 miles of the planet's surface.
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Two Huge Asteroids the Size of the Great Pyramid of Giza Are Set to Pass Earth over next 2 Weeks
Two large asteroids will pass Earth in the next two weeks, with one measuring up to 426 feet in diameter and the other 656 feet—comparable in size to ancient Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, which is 455 feet tall.
The first, smaller asteroid will pass by Earth on September 25 at a distance of 3.6 million miles, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which tracks and predicts asteroids and comets that will come close to Earth. The second larger asteroid will fly by on September 29 at a closer distance of 1.78 million miles.
NASA finds parts of another asteroid on asteroid Bennu | Fox News
NASA has discovered something peculiar on the asteroid Bennu — bits of another asteroid .
In a statement posted to its website, the government space agency said parts of the asteroid Vesta were discovered on Bennu, ranging in size from five to 14 feet. They are also significantly different in color when compared to asteroid Bennu.
“We found six boulders ranging in size from 5 to 14 feet (about 1.5 to 4.3 meters) scattered across Bennu’s southern hemisphere and near the equator,” said the study's lead author, Daniella DellaGiustina, in the statement . “These boulders are much brighter than the rest of Bennu and match material from Vesta.”
Election Day Asteroid: Is an Asteroid Really Hitting Earth Nov 2?
An asteroid called 2018 VP1 is scheduled to zip past Earth on November 2, just one day before Americans will cast their vote for the next President of the United States. The asteroid's timing brings new meaning to the phrase "Rock the Vote."
But if images of a massive space rock slamming into Earth are sending chills down your spine, take a deep breath.
Sky-scanning researchers discovered 2018 VP1 at the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in 2018. Because of its small size, scientists have had a tough time keeping track of the object and plotting its trajectory.
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Closest Asteroid to Pass Earth for a Year Will Fly by Thursday After Being Discovered 4 Days Ago
An asteroid that was discovered just four days ago will make an "extremely close"—albeit safe—approach to our planet this Thursday, astronomer Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project told Newsweek .
At around 7:18 a.m. ET on September 24, the object—known as 2020 SW—will come within around 16,700 miles of Earth, which is less than one tenth of the average distance between our planet and the moon, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Mission set to collect sample from asteroid
There are Three Asteroids Hiding in this Animation, See If You Can Find Them - Universe Today
This summer, the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) started posting "riddles" or challenges on their website. These riddles provide a look at how difficult it is for astronomers to find faint, near Earth objects (NEO). Try it for yourself by looking at the animation below:
Unless your eyes are used to quickly seeing changes/movement, this can be hard! This is a series of four images taken by a 1-meter telescope in Tenerife, Spain that the NEOCC uses for follow up observations of near Earth objects that have already been discovered. These secondary observations provide more data to better understand the size and orbit of the NEOs and to see if there's any chance of an object hitting Earth.
Scientists reveal why birds survived impact from giant asteroid that hit earth 66 million years
Published: 17:13 EDT, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 01:49 EDT, 20 September 2020
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Paleontologists believe birds were able to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event because their beaks allowed them to pluck seeds and nuts from destroyed forests.
Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck what is now known as Mexico 's Yucatan Peninsula, causing the sudden extinction of more than 75 percent of the Earth's plant and animal species.
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How to watch as an asteroid zooms close to Earth this week https://t.co/z60KzJohxW CBSNews (from New York, NY) Wed Sep 23 02:00:00 +0000 2020
How to watch as an asteroid zooms close to Earth this week https://t.co/uKSbJSkwod CBSNews (from New York, NY) Tue Sep 22 21:40:00 +0000 2020
Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, our @OSIRISREx spacecraft has set a record-breaking orbit and mapped… https://t.co/eI90V7R5rj NASA Sat Sep 19 22:39:46 +0000 2020
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