This animation shows asteroid 2022 EB5's predicted orbit around the Sun before impacting into the Earth's atmosphere on March 11, 2022. The asteroid – estimated to be about 6 ½ feet (2 meters) wide – was discovered only two hours before impact.
Asteroid 2022 EB5 was too small to pose a hazard to Earth, but its discovery marks the fifth time that any asteroid has been observed before impacting into the atmosphere.
An asteroid could wipe out an entire city. Here's NASA's plan - Big Think
The Earth exists in a dangerous environment. Cosmic bodies, like asteroids and comets, are constantly zooming through space and often crash into our planet. Most of these are too small to pose a threat, but some can be cause for concern .
As a scholar who studies space and international security , it is my job to ask what the likelihood of an object crashing into the planet really is – and whether governments are spending enough money to prevent such an event.
NASA's DART asteroid-slamming mission builds on tiny diamond-tipped tool tech | Space
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test ( DART ) mission launched in November and will arrive at its destination in late September. If all goes well, the impact will change the orbit of a small asteroid , Dimorphos, around a larger asteroid called Didymos.
That work has relied on a precision pressing tool known as a nanoindenter, which has a pyramid-shaped diamond tip measuring only a few millionths of a millimeter, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).
Don't look up! Winston-Salem is ground zero for simulated asteroid strike | Local News | ...
Winston-Salem, where the space rock is expected to unleash explosive energy hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II and leave destruction over a 20-square-mile area.
We pause here in our account of impending Armageddon for an important note: THIS IS ONLY A DRILL!
How to Spot Asteroids - The New York Times
"Stay up all night," says Gregory Leonard, a research scientist at the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, who uses a network of powerful telescopes to find and track what NASA calls near-Earth objects, including asteroids that come within 120 million miles of the sun.
Under the darkest skies, you might see Vesta, the largest asteroid, with your naked eye. Discovering others will require a telescope, preferably one with an aperture of at least eight inches and equipped with an astronomy-imaging camera.
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