A "potentially hazardous" asteroid more than twice the height of the Empire State Building will make a close encounter with Earth in January – and then won't make its next visit for another 200 years.
The space rock, called (7482) 1994 PC1, is expected to whiz by our planet at a "close approach" distance of 0.013 astronomical units on Jan. 18, Newsweek reported , citing NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Don't Look Up: Forget 'Don't Look Up' – It won't be lone scientists who are warning us about
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In 1988, an astronomer felt the need to warn the world that the apocalypse was at hand, or at least could be.
The filmmakers took advice from one of NASA's lead asteroid hunters, Amy Mainzer , and the movie is faithful to what such an event would be like – aside from the fact that such a problem would not be in the hands of two desperate scientists acting in a vacuum.
Nostradamus' doomsday asteroid 'prediction' – what NASA thinks about 2022 claim |
Some have wildly claimed that one of his predictions spells disaster for the Earth in 2022 through an asteroid collision.
Some believe this reference to "fire" falling from the sky could actually be a nod to a climate disaster, like a deadly forest fire.
Big Rockets, Massive Asteroids and More Space Highlights for 2022 - The New York Times
The Artemis I rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in September. It is scheduled for a test launch, without astronauts, this spring. Credit... Frank Michaux/NASA
At times, it was overwhelming. Two new rovers landed on Mars, one of them shadowed by an experimental helicopter. Two billionaires launched themselves to the edge of space, and a third billionaire flew himself higher up into orbit.
The Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs Gave Rise to South American Rainforests | Discover Magazine
A giant asteroid smashing into our planet sounds singularly catastrophic. But it might have also sparked environmental shifts that define Earth as we know it.
Tens of thousands of plant and pollen fossils collected from rocks across Colombia have revealed that the collision — which took place 66 million years ago — led to drastic changes in rainforest plant diversity, according to a Science study published in April.
Netflix's 'Don't Look Up' is the big asteroid of doom we deserve
Judging by the reaction to Netflix's Christmas Eve blockbuster "Don't Look Up," a lot of film critics would prefer their apocalyptic satires be delivered with more subtlety than an asteroid hitting Earth. The film has a 55 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes , classifying it as rotten.
NASA will launch mission to an unexplored world in 2022 | News | ...
Watch a spacecraft deliberately crash into an asteroid's moon and other 2022 space missions. An illustration of the NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, November 23 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
JAXA just gave NASA a sample from asteroid Ryugu | SYFY WIRE
We've been waiting for this since 2014. JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently dropped off samples from the asteroid Ryugu on Earth; NASA now has one of those rare samples.
Asteroids are the leftovers from solar system formation, hunks of rock that flew everywhere as objects that would eventually become planets and moons were colliding. They can also be time capsules holding evidence of what happened in the early solar system for billions of years.
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Hi, I'm Joe. I've been with the Enid News & Eagle since June 2009. I design many of the pages you see each week in your newspaper. I love writing and talking about space, and I love listening to and writing about music as well.
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