Calif
Asteroid strikes were an extreme example of the world’s wilful ignorance, perhaps—but not an atypical one. Low-probability, high-impact events are a fact of life. Individual humans look for protection from them to governments and, if they can afford it, insurers. Humanity, at least as rep...
RELATED:NASA: Asteroid the size of Empire State Building to whiz close by Earth in coming weeks Last month, other massive asteroids whizzed by the planet. Four large ones passed by Earth on Oct. 19, ranging from 318,000 miles to 2.9 million miles in its distance from Earth. NASA defines...
aRecent asteroid passes and the asteroid that exploded over Russia in February 2013 have underscored that we live on a fragile planet in the midst of a chaotic universe. We have been working for years to identify asteroids that could impact Earth. 在2月2013日爆炸在俄国的最近小行星通行证和小...
Estimated to be 43 meters wide, the newly discovered object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids. Such asteroids have orbits larger than Earth's own orbit around the sun and their paths cross with Earth's. The Chinese observatory projects that the asteroid will make a flyby on Feb. 4...
Prior research through NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System had already shown that the space rock was not a threat to smashing into Earth. While studying 2024 PT5's path, the research duo, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, could also trace back ...
Estimated to be 43 meters wide, the newly discovered object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids. Such asteroids have orbits larger than Earth's own orbit around the sun and their paths cross with Earth's. The Chinese observatory projects that the asteroid will make a flyby on Feb. 4...
— NASA's DART asteroid-impact mission explained in pictures In addition, the decadal survey calls for NASA to make use of the 2029 flyby of the large asteroid Apophis. During this encounter, the asteroid will definitely not collide with Earth, but such a close flyby of such a large ...
An asteroid that will be passing by us next week, dubbed YU55, will come closer to Earth than the moon's orbit. However, according to NASA, there's no reason to panic.
An asteroid will give Earth a historically close shave next week, but there's no chance that the space rock will slam into our planet on this pass, experts say. The 150-foot-wideasteroid 2012 DA14will zoom within 17,200 miles of our planet on Feb. 15, coming nearer than the ring of...