A recently discovered asteroid wider than a hockey rink that had been projected to hit Earth next year actually won't after all.
In January, asteroid 2022 AE1 was discovered by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona. Not long after that, the European Space Agency noted the 230-foot-wide asteroid was on a collision course with Earth for July 2023.
Greenland asteroid struck world recovering from dinosaur extinction | Natural History Museum
The asteroid strike is estimated to have occurred around 58 million years ago. Image © solarseven/Shutterstock
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An asteroid strike in what is now Greenland has been dated to 58 million years ago - just eight million years after the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Backbone of Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense
Hera will fly to the same asteroid system in the aftermath of the impact to perform a close-up " crime scene investigation ," including close-up mapping of DART's crater and assessing the asteroid's make-up and internal structure.
The stiff, strong core serves as a backbone to the spacecraft, built for ESA by a team from RUAG Space in Switzerland and OHB in the Czech Republic.
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Considering that in the last two years we’ve seen six million people die from a global virus, a mob of Americans attack the Capitol Building and the first major land war in Europe since the end of World War II, you’d be excused for forgetting a scary headline from the summer of 2019.
Strike confirmed! Juno captures 5,000 kg asteroid hitting Jupiter's upper atmosphere - SCIENCE News
When you are big and mighty, you are bound to get unwanted attention, and when it comes to Jupiter, that's exactly what happens. The massive gravitational pull of the planet has been the reason why massive objects are pulled towards it. This time an asteroid has hit the planet.
MLB lockout, Ukraine, COVID-19, asteroid. It's Thursday's news.
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NASA's Psyche Mission to Asteroid Takes a Step Forward With Attachment of Solar Arrays — When ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced that its Psyche spacecraft is one step closer to being deployed into Space.
Brian Bone, head of assembly, test, and launch operations for Psyche's mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said that seeing Psyche fully assembled for the first time is a huge accomplishment that evokes "a lot of pride."
Talk about a close call. A 230-foot wide asteroid thought to hit Earth next year won't after all. https://t.co/WWN3FrSAYl USATODAY (from USA TODAY HQ, McLean, Va.) Thu Mar 10 14:01:00 +0000 2022
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