NASA: An Asteroid Will Barely Avoid Slamming Into Earth TodayDavid Edwards
An asteroid that will fly safely past Earth today (Feb. 9) may be larger than the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia five years ago. The newly found interloper, called 2018 CB, is estimated to be from 50 to 130 feet (15 to 40 meters) wide.
**Related Video Above: NASA working to make moon livable** CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded. NASAinsists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid...
Asteroids are not usually a danger to the earth. Small asteroids enter the earth’s atmosphere every day. Objects often hit the earth. But they are not large enough to do any damage. Or, these asteroids fall in places where no one lives. Voice 1 But asteroids come in many different size...
doi:10.1038/34982Tony ReichhardtNature
Asteroid 2004 BL86, which passed closest to Earth today at a distance of 750,000 miles (1.2 million km), has a companion moon. Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of the asteroi...
Asteroid 2013 EC near earth today, March 4, 2013, Size of Russian meteor, Newly discovered at Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona on March 2 “…and there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea ...
A NASA spacecraft closed in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
We dodged a bullet today. It came within one half of the distance to the moon. I got this notice in email from NASA about a surprise asteroid that gave us only one day of warning passing halfway between the Earth and the moon. It was the largest known asteroid to ever pass t...
On January 18, a 1.1-kilometer asteroid named 1994 PC1 will make its closest approach to Earth in nearly a century, passing at about five times the distance from Earth to the Moon. This event offers a unique opportunity for both amateur and professional astronomers to observe a fast-moving ...