A huge asteroid will zoom past Earth today, data from NASA 's Center for Near Earth Studies (CNEOS) shows.
The space rock, dubbed 2016 CL136, is set to make its closest approach to our planet at 5:26 p.m. on February 1, according to CNEOS.
Based on its observed magnitude, astronomers estimate that the asteroid could measure anywhere between around 460 feet and 1,017 feet in diameter.
At the upper end of this estimate, the space rock would be around the same size as the Chrysler Building in New York City or the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
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JPL-Managed Mission to Explore Asteroid Cleared for Final Preparations Before Launch –
A planned NASA mission to send a probe to explore the asteroid Psyche has received approval to enter into the final phase of spacecraft development before launch, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managing the endeavor.
The Psyche probe will visit an asteroid bearing the same name that sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, JPL said in a written statement .
Project Manager Henry Stone of JPL said he was pleased with the progress, especially considering the background of the ongoing pandemic.
Asteroid size of Eiffel Tower to pass Earth: NASA study, World News | wionews.com
According to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), a huge asteroid would travel past the Earth on February 1.
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Experts say the asteroid is expected to come 3.3 million miles of the Earth. The asteroid is reportedly set to travel past the Earth on February 1 at 5:26 pm.
NASA had said that small asteroids pass the Earth a few time a year which are often difficult to record.
OUR SPACE: Looking ahead with OSIRIS-REx | Opinion | unionrecorder.com
It's time to check in with our super-successful asteroid explorer OSIRIS-REx. It's been relatively quiet around our long distance traveling friend lately, so let's recap for a moment.
Launched in September 2016 the spacecraft took a very circuitous approach, taking advantage of gravity assists to reach the mysterious asteroid Bennu. It arrived about two years later and then proceeded to map the asteroid in extreme detail. Bennu proved to have one surprise after another in store. Very little was known about the faraway little alien world, except that it had a very dark surface and was very hard to see with a telescope, and we knew its orbit and size.
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NASA says asteroid bigger than Eiffel Tower will pass earth; all you need to know
NASA's Asteroid Watch called Central for Near-Earth Object Studies has revealed that a huge asteroid, which is bigger than the size of Eiffel Tower, will pass Earth on February 1. Termed as 2016 CL136 measures 2016 CL136, as per the report. Also, experts say that the asteroid is expected to come 3.3 million miles from the Earth.
Even though the year 2020 has ended but the threats that came with it are still here. Earlier in Januray, five asteroids passed through earth. Howeverm three posed a lower threat due to their small sizes, while the other two were said to be nearly half a kilometre wide. An asteroid can be perceived as a threat depending on its size and the speed at which it's approaching.
NASA probe leaving asteroid Bennu in May to deliver samples to Earth | Space
NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will spend two extra months at its target space rock before heading back to Earth.
OSIRIS-REx snagged lots of dirt and rock from the 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 — so much stuff, in fact, that the probe's sample collector was literally overflowing .
The original mission plan called for OSIRIS-REx to leave Bennu's vicinity with this precious cargo on March 3. But the departure date has been pushed back to May 10, NASA officials announced Tuesday (Jan. 26).
An Asteroid "Double Disaster" Struck Germany in the Miocene - Eos
Our planet is dotted with nearly 200 confirmed impact structures , and a handful of them appear in close pairs. Some researchers have proposed that these apparent double craters are scars created by binary asteroids slamming into Earth at the same time. That makes sense, said William Bottke , a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., not involved in the new research. "We don't have that many craters on the Earth.
However, scientists have theoretically determined that the binary asteroid scenario is unlikely. That's because most binary asteroids are orbiting one another too closely to produce two distinct craters were they to slam into a rocky body, Bottke and his colleagues showed back in the 1990s. "If you're going to get two separate craters from the impact of a binary asteroid, they have to be pretty well separated," said Bottke.
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The largest – and arguably most spectacular – of the space rocks to skim past our planet today is dubbed asteroid 2021 BC.
US-based space agency NASA believes this cosmic debris may measure as much as 305ft (93m) across, putting the monster on a similar scale to New York’s iconic Statue of Liberty.
Asteroid 2021 BC has been accurately calculated to be making a rendezvous with Earth’s neighbourhood at 9.47pm GMT.
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Massive asteroid the size of Chrysler Building to pass earth today https://t.co/BOtR2zueC6 Newsweek (from New York, NY) Mon Feb 01 15:43:21 +0000 2021
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