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Asteroid hits Earth just hours after discovery
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe 1-meter asteroid was discovered just hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere and almost 10 years to the day that an asteroid about 20 times bigger hit...
Asteroid detected just hours before it exploded over Berlin
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA small asteroid detected only hours before entering the Earth’s atmosphere burned up in the skies...
Earth was hit by another huge asteroid at the same time as the one that wiped out dinosaurs, vast...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAround the same time the Earth was smashed by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, it was hit...
Oddly shaped asteroid once considered an impact risk for Earth races past the planet
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn asteroid larger than the Empire State Building that was once considered an impact risk of Earth...
Asteroid named for Egyptian god of chaos and darkness set for spacecraft flyby
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAfter delivering an asteroid sample to Earth Sunday, the newly expanded OSIRIS-APEX mission is...
Newly discovered asteroid passed between Earth and Moon in close encounter
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn aasteroid that was only discovered last week passed between the Earth and the Moon in a close,...
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test is the first planetary defense experiment ever attempted....
'City killer' asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth for centuries today (Feb. 2)
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest...
NASA probe to observe near-Earth asteroid's 2029 close encounter
Reuters via AOL· 6 months agoAbout 5-1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire State...
Fascinating recent discoveries about comets and meteors in our solar system
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoAs space objects go, comets and meteors are not very big. While a planet like Earth is about 8,000...