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'Planet killer' asteroid hidden by the sun may threaten Earth in a few thousand years
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTelescopes in the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a program of NSF’s...
'Planet Killer' Asteroid Spotted Lurking In Sun's Glare
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA huge asteroid is heading toward Earth’s orbit — but astronomers aren’t worried. The rock has a...
‘Planet killer’ asteroids nearly a mile long detected after being hidden by the sun's brightness
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAstronomers have detected three asteroids in close proximity to Earth, two of which pose a potential...
How Astronomers Found ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroids Lurking Behind the Sun’s Glare
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe asteroids in the inner solar system are hard to see, but a specialized camera can spot them...
'Planet killer' asteroids are hiding in the sun's glare. Can we stop them in time?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new...
"Planet killer" asteroids discovered hiding in sun's glare
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor a long time, the sun's glare has been hiding a secret — a trio of space rocks with one member...
Asteroid Discovered Hiding in Sun's Glare Could Be a 'Planet Killer' for Earth — But Not Anytime...
People via Yahoo News· 2 years ago"If this one hits the Earth, it would cause planetwide destruction. It would be very bad for life as...
Planetary defense: NASA's arsenal for protecting Earth from potential killer asteroids
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 1 year ago--- An asteroid the size of Texas hurtles straight toward Earth, threatening to kill most living...
Scientists Find Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Hiding in the Sun’s Glare
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA team of researchers has detected a trio of near-Earth asteroids in the inner solar system, one of...
Mile-wide asteroid found hiding in the Sun's glare
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn a nice spring day 66 million years ago, a killer asteroid came from outer space and crushed the dinosaurs into extinction. They couldn’t have seen it...