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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 · A massive "planet killer" asteroid will make a very close approach to Earth today (June 27), safely zipping past our planet at around 58,000 mph (93,000 km/h).
Jun 27, 2024 · Asteroid 2024 MK will fly past Earth on June 29. It is between 400 and 850 feet across and will pass within the orbit of the moon. It was discovered only 13 days before it is expected to pass...
Asteroid Watch: Keeping an Eye on Near-Earth Objects. Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies ( CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects, predicts their close approaches with Earth, and makes comprehensive impact hazard assessments in support of the agency’s ...
4 days ago · Second Close Approach. Assembled into this animation, observations from NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 MK shortly after it made closest approach with our planet on June 29. The 150-meter-wide asteroid’s orbit was slightly altered by Earth’s gravity as it passed. Two days later, on June 29, the same ...
NASA has issued an alert about a rare astronomical event occurring today. A massive, 'skyscraper-sized' asteroid is hurtling towards our planet at an unfathomable speed. The asteroid, dubbed 2024 ...
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.
