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Jun 21, 2024 · Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole...
Jun 27, 2024 · On June 27, the mountain-size asteroid 2011 UL21 will come within 5 million miles of Earth, making it one of the largest space rocks to come that close to our planet for 125 years.
Jun 21, 2024 · Here’s the scenario: The government has confirmed NASA astronomers detected a never-before-seen asteroid speeding in the direction of Earth—and although it will take 14 years to arrive, there is...
The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.
Mar 26, 2021 · The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942 Apophis had been identified as one of the most hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth.
Mar 10, 2023 · It’s nowhere near the 12 km (7.5 mi.) wide asteroid—more than half the length of Manhattan—that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That’s the good news.
This animation shows the orbital trajectory of asteroid 99942 Apophis as it zooms safely past Earth on April 13, 2029. Earth’s gravity will slightly change the trajectory of Apophis as it comes within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of our planet’s surface.
Sep 19, 2023 · An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...
Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years.
Jun 28, 2024 · The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently tracked two asteroids as they flew by our planet.
