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'Planet killer' asteroid hidden by the sun may threaten Earth in a few thousand years
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year 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· 1 year 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· 1 year 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· 1 year 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· 5 months agoIn the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new...
Asteroid Discovered Hiding in Sun's Glare Could Be a 'Planet Killer' for Earth — But Not Anytime...
People via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"If this one hits the Earth, it would cause planetwide destruction. It would be very bad for life as...
"Planet killer" asteroids discovered hiding in sun's glare
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor a long time, the sun's glare has been hiding a secret — a trio of space rocks with one member...
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· 1 year 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· 1 year 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...