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Bookmark or Share- NASA warns about airplane-sized asteroid that will fly past Earth ...It only becomes potentially hazardous if the asteroid 'has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the Sun by less than 0.05 astronomical units (1 AU is the distance to the Sun), that's just over 4.5 million miles,' professor of astrophysics and space science at the University of Leicester Martin Barstow told Newsweek.
- NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close ApproachesThe Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter-wide) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest approach — within about 184,000 miles (295,000 kilometers) of Earth — on June 29.
- Apophis - NASA ScienceWhen it was discovered in 2004, Apophis was identified as one of the most hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth. But that impact assessment changed after astronomers tracked Apophis, and its orbit became better determined.
- An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd ...A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.
- Near-Earth Asteroids as of December 2024 - Science@NASAEach month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about comets and asteroids that could pose an impact hazard with Earth.
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