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Asteroid today: This terrifying space rock set to have VERY close encounter with Earth
20Sep By adminNo Comments
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Asteroid today: This terrifying space rock set to have VERY close encounter with Earth

[ad_1] NASA has issued yet another alert with another asteroid expected to pass Earth today closely. Will it crash or burn? Know what NASA said. What if an asteroid is headed straight for a collision with the Earth? Will it cause annihilation on a small part of the planet or engulf it totally? Or will humanity survive? If you have ever had such questions, be ready to get them answered as NASA has a plan in place to protect the Earth from potential asteroid impact. NASA's $240 million Double Asteroid Detection Test or DART aims to smash a spacecraft into the Dimorphos asteroid to deflect it away from its path to gain greater knowledge as to what happens when a craft is crashed against a space rock. But before this test can tak...
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Danger! 80-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth today, Sept 20; collision possible?
20Sep By adminNo Comments
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Danger! 80-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth today, Sept 20; collision possible?

[ad_1] A huge asteroid will come terrifyingly close to Earth in a close encounter today. This asteroid has got NASA on alert. Will there be an asteroid collision with Earth? Astonishingly, asteroids are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. They come in all shapes and sizes, with the largest asteroid measured at a humongous 530 kilometers in diameter called Vesta. Asteroids can impact Earth and cause major damage to both life and property, with the most recent incident being the Chelyabinsk disaster when the space rock entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on February 15, 2013 and caused damage worth nearly $33 million. But will this upc...
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NASA lists out 5 hazardous asteroids that are heading for Earth this week
19Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA lists out 5 hazardous asteroids that are heading for Earth this week

[ad_1] NASA has issued a warning for 5 upcoming hazardous asteroids that will make their closest approach to Earth. This month is going to be exciting for stargazers as the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, is ready to make its closest approach to Earth in 71 years. While people on Earth will get a chance to have a rare glimpse of it, there will be some threatening asteroids in space that are posing a threat to our planet. Yesterday, three asteroids whizzed past the Earth, one of them being as large as a giant building at 390 feet, while there was a 36 foot asteroid that came terrifyingly close. But there are more coming soon.NASA's Asteroid Watch has listed 5 potentially hazardous asteroids that are making their c...
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3 dangerous asteroids careening towards Earth today, NASA warns; biggest is a 390-foot monster
18Sep By adminNo Comments
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3 dangerous asteroids careening towards Earth today, NASA warns; biggest is a 390-foot monster

[ad_1] Three humongous asteroids namely 2005 RX3, 2022 QB37, and 2022 SB are moving towards Earth today. While one is a monster at 390 feet, which is building sized, another is 180 feet, which is aeroplane sized. Are they dangerous? Find it out here. Sunday, September 18 is going to be a quite dangerous for planet Earth! Want to know why? Three humongous asteroids namely, 2005 RX3, 2022 QB37, and 2022 SB, are heading towards our planet today. Asteroid 2005 RX3 is the biggest one amongst all and is 390 FT in size (size of a building). Its closest Earth approach will be 2,950,000 miles. The 2022 QB37 is an airplane's size (180 FT) and will make a closest Earth approach of 4,080,000 miles. Asteroid 2002 SB is the smallest among ...
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Terrifying 260-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth tomorrow, NASA warns
4Sep By adminNo Comments
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Terrifying 260-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth tomorrow, NASA warns

[ad_1] NASA has warned that a massive 260-foot wide Asteroid 2022 RW will make its closest approach to Earth on September 5. Does this terrifyingly big asteroid pose any danger? Know here. NASA has warned that a gigantic 260-foot wide asteroid will pass by the Earth tomorrow, on September 5. The space agency keeps a constant eye on all the upcoming asteroids that may pose a threat to the Earth. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this terrifying Near-Earth object has been named Asteroid 2022 RW which is estimated to be up to 260-foot (79 mtr) in diameter. According to the report, it will make its closest approach to Earth at 6.98 million miles and it will be travelling at a mind-numbing speed of 11.20 km per second...
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Shocking! NASA to Slow Hunt for Asteroids That Could Kill Millions in ‘Baffling’ US Move?
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Shocking! NASA to Slow Hunt for Asteroids That Could Kill Millions in ‘Baffling’ US Move?

[ad_1] Thousands of asteroids as big as the Washington Monument zip around our solar system at 40,000 miles per hour, hunks of metal or rock that could strike with 10 times the force of the most powerful nuclear weapon and kill millions of people. Thousands of asteroids as big as the Washington Monument zip around our solar system at 40,000 miles per hour, hunks of metal or rock that could strike with 10 times the force of the most powerful nuclear weapon and kill millions of people.Congress wants NASA to find them. The Biden administration says it can wait. The space agency estimates there are about 25,000 asteroids of at least 140 meters in diameter near Earth's orbit. While the odds of them crashing into our planet at any ...
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This frightening 150-foot wide asteroid just buzzed Earth; NASA says 4 other asteroids coming
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This frightening 150-foot wide asteroid just buzzed Earth; NASA says 4 other asteroids coming

[ad_1] After the safe passage of a frightening 150-foot wide giant asteroid, NASA has issued a warning for four more asteroids. Here’s the list. While on one hand NASA is preparing to launch the Artemis I spacecraft to pave the way for a crewed flight test and future human lunar exploration, on the other, a massive 150-foot wide asteroid just passed the Earth from very close quarters. NASA revealed that an asteroid named 2022 QO31 made its closest approach of around 3.32 million miles to Earth today. Thankfully, Earth escaped the terror of this potentially hazardous asteroid, but it seems like this peace of mind will not last long. As soon as this asteroid skipped past the Earth, NASA has issued a warning about another four a...
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Beware! Gigantic killer asteroid hurtling towards the Earth today, says NASA; Will it strike us?
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Beware! Gigantic killer asteroid hurtling towards the Earth today, says NASA; Will it strike us?

[ad_1] 2022 QO31, a 150-foot wide asteroid, is going to make its closest approach to the Earth today, September 3, according to NASA and can pose a horrific threat to us. What is the likelihood of a strike? Find out. The asteroid troubles have been brewing for the Earth for a while now. Last month, the Earth luckily survived some close calls where asteroids just flew past our planet at a distance of a couple million kilometers, some even less. And in case you think these distances are too big to be concerning, just know that the asteroids themselves travel at a speed between 24,000-50,000 kmph. A few million kilometers can be covered in days, especially if it deviates from its path and heads for Earth. And this is why NASA sc...
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Asteroids by the numbers- all that NASA knows
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Asteroids by the numbers- all that NASA knows

[ad_1] NASA keeps an active eye on all the happenings in space. Here’s what NASA says about near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. NASA is on the constant hunt to find more about near-Earth objects, which are mostly atseroids and comets. But what do we know about the asteroids and comets in Earth's neighbourhood? NASA's Planetary Defense — which includes finding, tracking, and characterizing near-Earth objects helps to understand these space objects in a better way. These near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are basically comets and asteroids that have been pulled by the gravitational attraction of nearby other planets into orbits that allow them to enter the neighborhood of the Earth, says NASA. In a tweet on August 1, NASA s...
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Scary! A 100-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth today, August 28; NASA shares details
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Scary! A 100-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth today, August 28; NASA shares details

[ad_1] A 100-foot asteroid is hurtling towards Earth today, August 28! NASA warned about the massive space rock. Will this asteroid strike the Earth? Yesterday, Earth narrowly escaped a giant asteroid named Asteroid NEO 2022 QQ4, which was 100-foot in diameter. However, it flew safely past the Earth. Its closest approach to the Earth was 5.93 million kilometres. NASA's CNEOS has revealed that it travelled at a speed of 7.23 km per second. These giant rocks in space travel around the Sun, but they can change their paths due to the gravitational force of planets and sometimes even collide with them as happened with the asteroid that caused the extinction of dinosaurs when it crashed into the Earth! However, it may happen only i...
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