The asteroid, dubbed Sar2667, was first detected on the evening of Feb. 12 by astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky in Hungary. He toldSpace.comthat he found the asteroid during a routine near-Earth object hunt using a 2-foot telescope. "It was immediately obvious that it was an NEO, but it ...
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Thus did the Mount Lemmon reflector, part of theCatalina Sky Survey, discover 2014 AA, the first asteroid found this year. But at the time neither Kowalski nor anyone else realized that the little intruder was only 300,000 miles (500,000 km) from Earth and closing fast. This plot shows ...
"Unless an asteroid similar to Apophis hits Earth and we can measure the consequences, our program will remain a 'best guess' and subject to large uncertainties," Collins said. "But close approaches do help us better understand asteroids and their likelihood of striking Earth in future." What...
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There are asteroids out there that will certainly hit Earth but are so small they are almost imperceptible as they burn up in our atmosphere. Others might be giant, extinction-level event asteroids which could do immense damage but are traveling in orbits around the Sun that ar...
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“rainbow”), a savvy tabby who, against all odds, was reunited with his family in Salinas, California two months after becoming lost in Yellowstone National Park, some 1100 miles away. Rayne Beau made the vast majority of the return trip, almost 900 miles, under his own steam, though no...
scientists have spotted a small asteroid or a piece of space junk that they say has a 1-in-500 chance of hitting the earth in 30 years -- far greater odds than any similar object ever discovered. if it is an asteroid and it hits the planet, "it would be equivalent to a fairly ...
There are currently around 7000 known asteroids that cross very close to the Earth’s orbit with about one thousand of these being larger than one kilometer. For reference, a meteor that is just 5-10 meters in diameter that hits the Earth, which happens about once per year, creates an exp...