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An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
Bus-Sized Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon Next Week
"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...
NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
OTD In Space - October. 29: Galileo Spacecraft Flies By Asteroid Gaspra
On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
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Astronomers Uncover the Origin of Most of Earth’s Meteorites, Shedding Light on Our Solar System’s Past
DeAgostini / Getty Images Researchers found that the Karin ... “Maybe we’re only just seeing a tiny fraction” of the asteroid belt’s full bounty of material, she tells Science News.
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Nearly All Meteorites That Smash Into Earth Came From These 3 Ancient Collisions
Most of the meteorites that land on Earth today can be traced back to just three recent collisions out in the asteroid belt, according to a pair of recent studies. It’s hard to trace meteorites ...
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The origin of most meteorites finally revealed
These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5, and about 40 million years ago. The team also revealed the sources of other types of ...
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Astronomers trace the origin of meteorites that have struck Earth
Collisions in the main asteroid belt send rocky fragments flying haphazardly through space, with some of those eventually striking Earth. "While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had ...
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The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...
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Apophis: A New European Space Mission Could Get Up Close With A Large Asteroid That's Set To Brush By Earth
Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are small, only 10 ...
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What Hollywood gets wrong—and surprisingly right—about saving the world from killer asteroids
In contrast, millions of asteroids that have escaped the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter flit about worryingly close to Earth, and are considerably more likely to hit us. Fortunately ...
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Saturn Trojan asteroid confirmed
Jupiter has so many because it lies next to the asteroid belt and has a massive gravitational ... In this case, 2019 UO 14 was also found to appear in prior images where its position could be ...