The biggest asteroid to visit Earth this year is zoomimg by our planet today (March 21) and it's a real speed demon.
Asteroid 2001 FO32 is up to 2,230 feet (680 meters) wide and poses no impact risk to the Earth, but its speed is peculiar, the agency said.
"The reason for the asteroid's unusually speedy close approach is its highly inclined and elongated (or eccentric) orbit around the sun, an orbit that is tilted 39 degrees to Earth’s orbital plane," NASA officials wrote in a statement . "This orbit takes the asteroid closer to the sun than Mercury and twice as far from the sun as Mars."
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Mars helicopter Ingenuity gets 1st taste of Red Planet air (video) | Space
The little helicopter aboard NASA's Perseverance rover has gotten its first look at the Red Planet.
The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper, a technology demonstration named Ingenuity , traveled to Mars attached to Perseverance's belly. Over the weekend, Perseverance dropped the debris shield that protected Ingenuity during the rover's epic Feb. 18 touchdown on the floor of Jezero Crater.
The move helps pave the way for Ingenuity's test flights, which could take place as soon as the first week of April .
Long Island City is hosting painted planet art installation
Titled LIC is a Galaxy, the new neighborhood-wide installation from Long Island City Partnership features 20 fiberglass spheres placed in tree pits throughout the district. Five different Queens-based artists were selected to each paint four different “planets” for the installation which were all inspired by the vibrancy and creativity of the neighborhood.
Time Out New York got an exclusive first look at some of the new pieces which you can check out below. They were all manufactured by LIC-based fabricator Sculpture House NYC and the process for selecting the artists was overseen by Culture Lab LIC .
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Interstellar object 'Oumuamua is a pancake-shaped chunk of a Pluto-like planet | Space
The first known visitor from interstellar space, 'Oumuamua , was likely a pancake-shaped chip off a Pluto-like world, researchers say.
These findings may shed light on the stuff a new class of planet , an exo-Pluto, is made of, scientists added.
Astronomers first detected the mysterious visitor named 1I/'Oumuamua — meaning 'scout' or 'messenger' in Hawaiian — in 2017. 'Oumuamua's speed and trajectory revealed it originated outside the solar system, making it the first known interstellar object .
Astro Bob: Watching the seasons change at Saturn | Grand Forks Herald
Any planet with a tipped axis like the Earth has seasons. On Earth, the northern hemisphere angles steeply sunward from May through August, so the sun shines high in the sky. As a consequence, daylight hours are long, heat builds up and summer happens. In winter, when the Earth moves to the other side of its orbit, the northern hemisphere is tipped away from the sun. It shines low in the sky, resulting in shorter hours of daylight and falling temperatures.
It's rather incredible to think that the profound differences between the seasons stem from a single cause: the varying amount of solar energy each hemisphere receives across a year. This fact holds for any planet with a significant nod to its axis.
Happening on Twitter
The biggest #asteroid of 2021 is going to zoom past Earth tonight flying as fast as 100,000 kmph - By @pabsgill… https://t.co/Ceey7Qub74 BiIndia (from New Delhi, India) Sun Mar 21 04:06:24 +0000 2021
The biggest asteroid to visit Earth in 2021 zooms by our planet unusually fast today https://t.co/2u2yMqqdf4 https://t.co/RjISi6am5z SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Sun Mar 21 14:03:06 +0000 2021
The biggest asteroid of the year is set to fly past Earth tonight. The space rock, dubbed 2001 FO32, is nearly half… https://t.co/bo2p2sa732 BiIndia (from New Delhi, India) Sun Mar 21 07:19:06 +0000 2021
Hoy pasa a 2 millones de km de la Tierra y a 124.000 km por hora, el asteroide más grande que se nos acercará este… https://t.co/g9hIIPYW7E norabar (from Buenos Aires, Argentina) Sun Mar 21 14:12:43 +0000 2021
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