Despite what you may have read in media reports, no one is issuing any warnings about asteroids 2009 JF1 or 467460 (2006 JF42), which will zoom by our planet on Friday (May 6) and Monday (May 9) respectively.
There's even a curated list of asteroids available that the agency monitors, which require "more attention" because there is a tiny, statistically improbable chance of impact.
Can We Protect the Planet From an Asteroid Speeding Towards It? | Discover Magazine
In more recent years, meteoroids have hit us, the asteroid's smaller cousin. Tunguska hit Siberia in 1908 and lit up the sky as far away as London; and Chelyabinsk, another Russian hit, was caught on tape in 2013.
A big one hasn't hit us in a while, but the next one is somewhat unavoidable, according to Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University.
China is going to try to move an asteroid
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) will attempt to redirect the orbit of an asteroid by slamming a spacecraft into it, Wu Yanhua, the agency's deputy director, told China Central Television (CCTV) .
The mission is one part of CNSA's new planetary defense strategy, designed to preempt a potentially devastating asteroid impact in the future.
Psyche asteroid explorer arrives at Kennedy Space Center for launch preps – Spaceflight Now
A U.S. military cargo plane delivered NASA’s Psyche spacecraft from California to the Kennedy Space Center last week, starting a three-month campaign to ready the asteroid explorer for liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in August.
The launch preparations at Kennedy will include loading of more than a ton of xenon gas into the Psyche spacecraft, followed by encapsulation of the probe inside SpaceX’s payload fairing before rolling out to pad 39A for integration with a Falcon Heavy launcher.
Asteroid Dust | StarDate Online
Small containers hold samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft. The craft returned the samples to Earth in December 2020, and they are being dispatched to scientists around the world for analysis this summer.
Sometime this summer, a few scientists will get little bits of heaven: grains of rock and dirt from an asteroid.
1.8 Kilometer Wide Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
Washington: A potentially hazardous giant asteroid is set to zoom past Earth with a 37,400 kmph speed on Thursday, May 5, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
NASA defines any space object that comes within 193 million km of Earth as a “near-Earth object” (NEO) and any fast-moving object within 7.5 million km as “potentially hazardous”.
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