F or several weeks, news has been spreading that the Earth could be threatened by an asteroid that will cross the Earth's orbit this Friday.
Even on social networks, the rumor arose that a catastrophic collision would mean "the end of the world" on May 6.
Global citizen science project finds more than 1,700 asteroid trails in Hubble images
The astronomers collectively identified more than 37,000 composite images taken between April 2002 and March 2021 with Hubble's ACS and WFC3 instruments. With a typical observation time of 30 minutes, asteroid trails appear as curved lines or streaks in these images.
Roughly one third of the asteroid trails seen could be identified and attributed to known asteroids in the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre, the largest database of solar system objects.
NASA's Psyche almost ready for launch to metal asteroid | Digital Trends
There are all sorts of oddities out in the depths of our solar system, and one of the most intriguing is a strange metal asteroid called Psyche.
That makes Psyche a valuable target for research because it could teach us about how planets like Earth — which has a metal core — formed and evolved.
The Sky This Week from May 6 to 13 | Astronomy.com
Friday, May 6
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks early this morning. The best time to catch its shooting stars is a few hours before dawn, when the radiant in Aquarius is highest in a moonless sky.
Eta Aquariid meteors are born from dust left in the inner solar system by Halley’s Comet. When Earth passes through this trail, which sits along the comet’s orbit, we experience a meteor shower.
The primate that outlived the dinosaurs is giving me hope.
In my home state of Utah and around the nation, transphobic laws threatened everything from trans kids' ability to be themselves to what bathrooms people like me can use. I knew it wasn't going to end there.
On a spring day 66 million years ago, our planet went to hell. A 7-mile-wide asteroid struck our planet in what's now the Yucatán Peninsula , immediately creating shock waves and megatsunamis that were so powerful they actually rebounded back toward the point of impact after they hit the shore.
Michael Bay on Ben Affleck questioning Armageddon's plausibility | SYFY WIRE
The further we get from 1998, the Year of the Big Asteroid Movie, the more it seems like a blessing that we got dueling films with the same premise over the course of one blockbuster summer.
If Deep Impact is the "Humanity will struggle, but endure" Big Asteroid Movie, then Armageddon is the "We will kick that asteroid's ass and look cool doing it" Big Asteroid Movie, an unapologetic dose of early Bayhem that's as defined by its caution-to-the-wind approach to narrative as it is ...
Pieces from fireball that rattled Mississippi homes are being found
The fireball was spotted around 8:03 a.m. CT on Wednesday, Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office previously told USA TODAY. Actually a piece of an asteroid – about a foot long and weighing 80 to 90 pounds – the fireball was "way too small" to cause any damage, Cooke said.
NASA said the fireball "generated an energy equivalent of 3 tons of TNT" and it appeared 10 times brighter than the full moon at its peak before disintegrated 34 miles above the swampy area north of Minorca in Louisiana.
What's an asteroid "precovery"?☄️👻 Calculating an asteroid's orbit, and so the risk it poses to Earth, requires me… https://t.co/ToUrzjxce5 esaoperations (from Darmstadt, Germany) Fri May 06 10:16:34 +0000 2022
@theblaze "Time for an asteroid extinction event again" ElijahSchaffer (from Dallas, TX) Sat May 07 19:04:34 +0000 2022
in a fight between lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene I'm rooting for an asteroid goldengateblond Sat Apr 30 00:01:27 +0000 2022
The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid spider is approximately 3,720 to 1. #Maythe4th https://t.co/IVHM49rUOT Wizards_DnD (from Seattle, WA) Wed May 04 17:00:03 +0000 2022
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