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Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 4 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...
Probing the effects of interplanetary space on asteroid Ryugu
Phys.org· 7 days agoAnalyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2...
Earth’s quasi-moon Asteroid Kamo'oalewa likely blasted out of this giant Moon crater
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLess than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid, scientists say they have determined...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
CNN via AOL· 4 days agoRare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something...
Asteroid Ryugu holds secrets of our solar system's past, present and future
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSamples of asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have revealed the impact solar...
Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoScientists have calculated the rotational speed of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Berlin...
How to see the Eta Aquarid meteor shower in 2024
Mashable· 1 day agoAt a time like this, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is a great excuse to look up at the night sky. This year's shower peaks close to the new moon — the...
Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks
GeekWire via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has...
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
SPACE.com· 3 days agoWhen NASA's Lucy mission passed by the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that Dinkinesh had a companion — a little moonlet that astronomers soon named ...
'Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA pair of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and Selam created with data collected by the...