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Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 5 hours agoA 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive body orbiting the ...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 1 day agoWhen the Arecibo Observatory dish in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost a powerful radio telescope and a unique radar instrument to map the...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 1 day agoAn asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form.
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 2 days agoTake, for example, asteroid Dinkinesh, the first target of the NASA mission Lucy. As the spacecraft approached, the team were surprised to see an unexpected moon appear around ...
NASA’s Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System
Forbes· 4 days agoIt’s humbling to realize that we are the first sentient beings to successfully sample Bennu, a...
Just-discovered ‘dinky’ asteroid moon is actually something far stranger
Cosmos· 2 days agoDinkinesh, the asteroid that was the first target of NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter, is still throwing up surprises. The first surprise came when the Lucy spacecraft zipped ...
Astronomers develop new observation technique to mitigate asteroid risks
China Daily· 5 days agoA collaborative research team from China and Ukraine has been monitoring near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) through regular observations to ...
Bright comet headed toward Earth could be visible with the naked eye
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe incoming comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS might become as brilliant as Venus during its close approach to...