(CNN) In a year that seemingly keeps on giving, perhaps it's not so surprising that NASA's newly discovered asteroid called 2020 SW will give earth a not so socially distant pass.
2020 SW, discovered by @Catalina_sky , is about 15 to 30 ft. wide and will pass by Earth Thurs., Sept. 24, at a distance of about 13,000 miles (22,000 km). Tiny asteroids like 2020 SW approach Earth this closely several times every year and aren't a threat: https://t.co/xKWtzxLI7Q pic.twitter.com/FpkY77zibw
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Asteroid the size of bus to zoom past Earth, ducking below satellites, Nasa says | South China
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Predicting the Aftermath of the Economic Asteroid Known as COVID-19 - Connecticut Post
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When the asteroid that is COVID-19 struck world economies, the market was in the middle of a protracted, painful transition out of the Industrial Era. That asteroid will cost the global economy anywhere from $10 trillion to $15 trillion. It will also speed us on our way to the next era, the digital age.
Hayabusa2's Mission isn't Over.
In an expected move, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission extension for their Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Hayabusa2 will be sent to rendezvous with another asteroid in a few years time.
It’s target is 1998 KY26 , a near-Earth object (NEO) less than a kilometer in diameter. But it’ll take a while and some maneuvering around other objects in the Solar System to reach its goal. JAXA says the spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid in July 2031.
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NASA prepares to touch down on an asteroid 207 million miles away
The process of collecting the sample will take 4.5 hours, and NASA has been going through practice runs ahead of the real touch down next month. The agency says it's ready to go ahead with the touchdown despite the challenges of coronavirus which have forced the mission team to work remotely.
On the day of the event, a few key personnel will monitor from the main Mission Support Area, while other team members will be at other locations to check whether the touchdown has been successful and to confirm whether a sufficiently large sample has been collected.
China to launch asteroid-mining robot | The Independent
Origin Space will launch its first bot aboard a Long March rocket, operated by the China National Space Administration, following a push by China to encourage private companies to begin mining space resources.
The Beijing-based firm has dubbed its NEO-1 machine a "space mining robot", though it is more of a prospector than an actual miner.
It will be used to test technologies and sequences necessary to land on and mine an asteroid for valuable minerals and elements like gold, silver and cobalt.
China Set to Send First Ever Asteroid Mining Robot into Space in November
China is all set to send out the world's first mining robot into space by November this year. A private Beijing company, Origin Space, will be launching this ambitious project. Despite being called an 'asteroid mining robot', it's not going to do any actual mining. The mission is a preliminary assessment, to field-test technologies aimed at the eventual mining of asteroids.
The NEO-1 will most probably be launched as a secondary payload on a Chinese Long March rocket. The spacecraft is quite light by spacecraft standards at 30 kg. It will enter at an orbit around the earth at 500 km altitude. "The goal is to verify and demonstrate multiple functions such as spacecraft orbital manoeuvre, simulated small celestial body capture, intelligent spacecraft identification and control," said Yu Tianhong, Origin Space co-founder in an interview with IEEE Spectrum.
When it comes to asteroids and other calamities, time might be on our side - The Boston Globe
2020 has seen more than its share of disasters — natural, man-made, and some best described as nature/human collaborations — compelling us to reasonably wonder what's next. The recent announcement that a small asteroid is on track to narrowly miss Earth the day before Election Day in November may inspire brand new forms of anxiety. After all, an argument exists that we're overdue for a major collision with an asteroid.
Statistically speaking, not necessarily. Depending on the situation, the pressure for an event to happen doesn't always build up with the passage of time. For example, if we bet repeatedly on a single number at a roulette table, the expected number of spins before we win is 38. But even after a streak of 100 losing spins, we should still expect another 38 on average before our number comes up.
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