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Barringer Crater may have been formed by a cosmic 'curveball,' asteroid simulations show
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAsteroids with different spins and bonding strengths may be responsible for the vast variety of...
Scientists determine near-Earth asteroid was blasted from moon, leaving crater
Scripps News via AOL· 3 weeks agoScientists at the University of Arizona have discovered that asteroid 2016 HO3 was likely blasted...
World’s largest-ever asteroid impact crater may be in Australia
The Independent UK via AOL· 7 months agoThe world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in...
Asteroid impacts on moon coincide with some on Earth, glass bead study shows
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoAsteroid impacts on the moon millions of years ago coincided with some of the largest meteorite...
Scientists Say They've Found the Largest Asteroid Impact Crater Hiding in Plain Sight
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoLargest-Ever Asteroid Impact Might be in AustraliaMichael Godek - Getty Images Researchers believe...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month agoScientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's...
How NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will help protect Earth against asteroid Bennu and its flyby in 2182
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAsteroid Bennu is the space rock with the highest known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200...
NASA's OSIRIS mission delivered asteroid samples to Earth
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacts the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism, or...
Defending Earth takes the whole planet: Why NASA crashed into an asteroid – on purpose
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Sept. 26, NASA crashed an uncrewed, refrigerator-size spacecraft into an asteroid. And we did it...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact triggered mega earthquakes that shook Earth for ‘weeks to months’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe asteroid impact that led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago also...