WASHINGTON — Earth will have some relatively close encounters with asteroids in the coming days, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Five asteroids will make an approach to earth, one of them is approximately 620 feet, taller than a typical office building. For reference the Washington Monument is 555 feet and 5 and 1/8 inches tall.
The largest asteroid, 2021 KT1, will make a close approach to Earth on June 1, coming within 4.5 million miles of Earth.
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Asteroid Close Calls | The Planetary Society
Asteroid Potentially Bigger Than the Eiffel Tower to Fly Past Earth Next Week
The huge space rock, known as 2021 KT1, will make a close approach to our planet on June 1 at around 10:24 a.m. EDT.
In cosmic terms, the word "close" is relative. Although NASA includes the pass in its "close approaches" data table, the asteroid will in fact zoom past the Earth at a distance of around 4.5 million miles.
Still, the asteroid is thought to be quite large and it will be traveling at a speed of around 40,000 mph during its close approach—nearly 20 times as fast as a rifle bullet.
Scientists Discover The Origins Of A 23-Million-Year-Old Asteroid That Hit Earth Kids News Article
While scientists have managed to recover and examine thousands of meteorites, finding their origin or even whether they are from icy comets or rocky asteroids has proved elusive. Now, for the first time, a team of international researchers has traced the source of a boulder-sized rock that landed in Botswana to an asteroid named Vesta. Boasting a diameter of about 326 miles, it is one of the largest and brightest rocks in the asteroid belt that circles the Sun between Jupiter and Mars.
Asteroid mining, space tourism and the new space race - Equal Times
In this image from September 2016, a NASA rocket takes off with the Osiris-Rex probe from Cape Canaveral in Florida, heading for asteroid Bennu (320 million kilometres from Earth). After collecting samples from the asteroid's surface and spending time in orbit, it has begun its return to Earth, and is scheduled to arrive in 2023.
A source of poetic musings for some and an area of geostrategic competition for others, space is also starting to become a new niche market for the shrewdest of public and private entrepreneurs.
Elon Musk Thinks Dinosaurs 'Would Still Be Around' if They Had Spaceships During
In a reply to a meme about Dinosaurs (which he posted himself) he mentioned how “If only they had spaceships, they'd still be around."
While this may sound ironic and a joke, Musk’s real goals aren’t too far from the suggestion, ‘Put it in a spaceship.’
Elon Musk has mentioned his plans of taking humans to Mars for a while - and he finally has a timeline for it. “Five and a half years," he mentioned in February. While that’s not a hard deadline. Musk listed a number of caveats — there’s a raft of technological advances that must be made in the intervening years. “The important thing is that we establish Mars as a self-sustaining civilization," he said.
Asteroid Installed in the Center Of Brno Resembles Materialized Hologram – Brno Daily
A silver statue reminiscent of an asteroid has been installed in the center of Brno. The three-ton installation by Michal Gabriel is attracting the attention of passers-by on Kobližná. Photo Credit: NS / BD.
Brno, May 27 (BD) – An asteroid was installed on Kobližná last Thursday night, May 20th, by the Kávéeska cultural center. The designer of the glittering statue, which will remain in the centre of Brno for at least four months, is the Czech sculptor and artist Michal Gabriel.
Japan will send a transforming robot ball to the moon to test lunar rover tech | Space
The Japanese company ispace will deliver the small rover to the moon for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) using the commercial HAKUTO-R lander. JAXA will use the rover to snap pictures of the moon and collect data on lunar dust — a corrosive substance known to be tough on people and machines, the space agency said.
It appears JAXA's "transformable lunar robot" will be the second one carried on ispace's debut mission, as the company announced last month it would also deploy a rover from the United Arab Emirates , called Rashid. If the mission is successful, Japan and the UAE will join the small club of nations to successfully soft-land spacecraft on the moon, after the then-Soviet Union, United States and China.
June ISS and Sky | Edhat
The International Space Station will be making some bright visible passes through our evening skies in the first week of June, June Gloom permitting. Its orbit may change from time to time, so to get the latest and most complete predictions, visit Heavens Above .
On Tuesday, June 1, the ISS will have its brightest pass of this sequence, rising at 9:54 PM PDT in the NW between Auriga and Gemini, cruise through the dim constellations Lynx, Leo Minor, Canes Venatici, and Coma Berenices before vanishing in the Earth's shadow high overhead near bright orange Arcturus at 9:57 PM.
