An Asteroid Almost Smashed Into Earth And No One Saw It Coming
An asteroid dubbed 2021 UA1 came the third closest an asteroid has come to Earth without actually colliding with it, and no one, not even NASA, saw it coming.
Asteroid 2021 UA1, which is about the size of a refrigerator (two meters or 6.6 feet in diameter), flew by Antarctica on Sunday, October 24 and astronomers reported not seeing it until hours after it had passed the planet.
NASA warns huge asteroid is heading towards Earth in December | Times Series
The “potentially hazardous” space rock called 4660 Nereus is set to make a close pass of the earth next month.
But should humanity be worried - and how does Nasa know this asteroid could be hazardous to our planet?
On 11 December 2021, the 330m-long asteroid 4660 Nereus is set to whistle past the earth at a speed of 6.58 kilometres-per-second at a distance of 2.4 million miles.
NASA says a glitchy strap could be behind Lucy asteroid probe's solar array troubles | Space
NASA may be homing in on the glitch that kept a massive solar array on its new asteroid-bound spacecraft from properly deploying.
The agency's Lucy mission launched on Oct. 16 and about an hour after blast off, began deploying its two large solar arrays as scheduled. However, early analysis suggested that one of the two arrays, each more than 24 feet (7 meters) across, did not fully deploy .
Russia's Asteroid Problem - Worldcrunch
Concerned that Russia may not be so lucky next time, the country's Ministry of Emergencies – for the second time in recent years – is looking for better ways to predict, and manage, possible rocks from the heavens.
This is not the Russian government's first stab at predicting what might happen if objects do in fact fall from the sky. Two years ago, a non-profit called "Center for Planetary Protection" won a similar competition.
‘Asteroid City’: Jake Ryan Joins Cast Of New Wes Anderson Movie – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE : Jake Ryan ( Chad , Moonrise Kingdom ) recently reunited with Wes Anderson for Asteroid City , which we hear has wrapped production in Spain.
The plot of the feature is being kept under wraps for the moment.
Anderson is producing his latest film with Jeremy Dawson and Steven Rales. While the seven-time Oscar nominee has distributed his last three films through Searchlight Pictures, Asteroid City has not been set up with a studio.
3.9 billion year old Moon asteroid impact linked to Earth's evolution | TweakTown
3.9 billion years ago, the Moon experienced a large number of asteroid impacts, and a new study published in the journal Science Advances explores where these asteroids may have come from.
The planetologists analyzed lunar samples that contain very small metal globules that formed during the asteroid impacts.
Will an asteroid hit earth in December - and should you be worried? | Shields Gazette
So it's no surprise that news from Nasa that an asteroid bigger than London's The Shard is set to whizz past our planet has hit the headlines.
The "potentially hazardous" space rock called 4660 Nereus is set to make a close pass of the earth in December.
How to protect Earth from incoming asteroids - Big Think
In February of 2013, skywatchers around the world turned their attention toward asteroid 2012 DA14, a cosmic rock about 150 feet (50 meters) in diameter that was going to fly closer to Earth than the spacecraft that bring us satellite TV.
“There is a large asteroid or comet lurking in our solar system with ‘Earth’ written on it. We just don’t know where it is or when it will hit.”
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid set to pass close to Earth in December
An asteroid will come close to Earth on December 11 but will unlikely pose any threat to the planet.
According to NASA's asteroid tracker , the 330 meter-long rock will pass by the planet at a distance 3.9 million kilometres at a speed of 6.578 km/s.
Happening on Twitter
A massive asteroid dubbed 163899 (2003 SD220) and comparable in size to the Burj Dubai, the largest manmade structu… https://t.co/xOoaljw91X Jerusalem_Post (from Israel) Tue Nov 09 07:48:22 +0000 2021
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