An asteroid that is wider than the tallest building in the world is set to make one of its closest encounters with Earth next week. —CBS News
My esteemed colleagues, in 2018 a former student of mine (now a fine astronomer) discovered an M-type asteroid orbiting in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter and proposed naming it after me. The I.A.U. approved, and thus asteroid Carlhobbes was born.
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The kilometer-wide, potentially hazardous asteroid 1994 PC 1 will fly past Earth on January 18th. Good news on two counts: It won’t hit us, and it’s bright enough to see in a 4-inch telescope.
Asteroid (7482) 1994 PC 1 is big and potentially hazardous, meaning that its orbit intersects Earth's. But this time around, the space rock comfortably misses Earth and instead puts on a safe show for small telescope users.
Massive asteroid will fly by Earth next week, NASA data shows
A kilometer-wide asteroid will pass by Earth next week, according to data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
The asteroid, known as 7482 (1994 PC1), was first observed in 1994. It will pass within 0.01324 astronomical units (1,230,734 miles) of Earth at 4:51 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
Asteroid twice the size of Empire State Building projected to pass Earth next week
NASA says an asteroid twice as big as the Empire State Building is projected to pass by Earth sometime next week.
The asteroid is estimated to be one kilometer (3,451 feet) wide, twice the size of the Empire State Building, which is 1,454 feet wide.
A Brazilian student won an award for discovering 25 asteroids in a NASA project
Brazilian medical student Verena Bacola, 22, received an award after participating in a project by the US space agency, NASA, and discovering 25 asteroids.
According to the student, one of them could hit the ground, but its size and possible date of collision are still being studied. It is called a weak asteroid because it is moving slowly and in its orbit.
FACT: There is No Known Threat from Any Asteroid for at Least the Next 100 Years. Our ...
FACT: There is no known threat from any asteroid for at least the next 100 years.
Our Planetary Defense Coordination Office constantly monitors potential threats from asteroids and other Near-Earth Objects. Follow @AsteroidWatch for updates.
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Monday brings us the first full moon of the year. It will rise just before sunset and will set after the sun rises so it will be hard to miss once the sky gets dark.
The full moon names that Almanac.com use come mainly from Native Americans and Colonial American times. It’s thought that January’s full moon came to be since wolves were heard howling more often during that time.
From the moon to Mars: Space missions to watch out for in 2022
NASA technicians rehearse booster stacking operations in preparation for the Artemis 1 launch. Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Monica Grady of the Open University looks at plans for a rocket system destined for the moon and a new rover beginning its journey to Mars.
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2022 is already feeling as stressful as the worst stretches of 2021 – and without the prospect of a fresh start with a new administration.
Newscasters report that COVID-19 cases are arising at three times the rate posted during the peak of last summer's wave. And on TV, phone, and computer screens, first-anniversary autopsies of the Jan.
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