At 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) long, it's roughly two and a half times the height of the Empire State Building, and it's been classed a "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" due to its size and its regular close visits to our planet.
But don't worry, this month's visit is going to have a very safe clearance, with the asteroid zipping by at a distance of 1.93 million kilometers (~1.2 million miles) away from Earth – that's roughly 5.15 times more distant than the Moon .
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In August 2022, NASA will send a space probe to an asteroid dubbed 16 Psyche that resides in the Main Asteroid Belt between planets Mars and Jupiter.
When observing Psyche from Earth, the celestial body appears as a fuzzy blur. But by observing light reflected off it, scientists hypothesize the asteroid may be unusually rich in metal.
First Hayabusa2 results from asteroid sampling mission
In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped its treasure through the Earth's atmosphere and onto the red dirt carpet of the South Australian desert.
Now, the results are in of the first preliminary analysis of this other-worldly material, and they show that we could soon discover whether asteroids like Ryugu brought water and organic materials to the ancient Earth.
This spacecraft's mission is to crash into an asteroid. Here's why | KJZZ
It has one scientific instrument on it: a camera for navigation. And its mission is to essentially ram itself into an asteroid.
Cristina Thomas is an assistant professor in the department of astronomy and planetary science at Northern Arizona University; she's also head of the DART observations working group. The Show spoke with her to learn about the project.
Don't Look Up: Would a comet really destroy Earth - or could we stop it?
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This is the scenario in Netflix's film Don't Look Up , where a PhD student played by Jennifer Lawrence and a professor in the form of Leonardo DiCaprio crunch the numbers on a whiteboard and realise we are doomed.
About 65 million years ago an asteroid 10-15km wide crashed into Earth at Chicxulub in Mexico , sending vast amounts of material into the atmosphere and sparking a global winter.
Brian Cox warns thousands of future asteroids 'could hit us' like '50 Hiroshima
“Just to give a sense of the energy these impacts create- even smallish objects- 10-20 metres across- deposit the energy of 20-50 Hiroshima bombs.
“I think we take our safety and our existence on this planet for granted. Impacts happen.
Has the impact flux of small and large asteroids varied through time on Mars, the Earth and the
The impact flux over the last 3 Ga in the inner Solar System is commonly assumed to be constant through time. However, asteroid break-up events in the main belt may have been responsible for cratering spikes over the last ~2 Ga on the Earth-Moon system.
'Don't Look Up' is a political satire that fails in more ways than one - Los
"Don't Look Up," Adam McKay's dark comedy released on Netflix just before Christmas, has gotten an enormous amount of attention, despite the fact most film critics tend to agree it doesn't hold together too well artistically, even as some welcome it for its propagandistic value.
'Don't Look Up' number leads straight to sex hotline, fans discover
Viewers of Adam McKay’s new dark comedy on Netflix discovered an X-rated Easter egg when Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, delivers a public service announcement after he discovers an apocalyptic asteroid.
Speaking of DON'T LOOK UP, am I the only one that called the FEMA/Bash hotline and got a phone sex operator? pic.twitter.com/k8iIhiNWyO
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