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An asteroid will fly pretty close to Earth and scientists are excited
Quartz· 6 days agoIn about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close...
Scientists have predicted the exact date asteroid is in danger of hitting Earth with force of 22...
UNILAD· 6 days agoYou may want to mark your calendars as scientists have predicted an exact date you should keep in...
Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin
Forbes· 4 days agoEarth’s “second moon”—an asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself....
There's a new theory about how one of earth's 'quasi-moons' war born
Quartz· 7 days agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid’s Birthplace
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 7 days agoWhen scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part of the Moon. It’s a sound...
Novel calculations peg age of 'baby' asteroid
Phys.org· 19 hours agoThe new method complements that work and has some advantages: It doesn't require an expensive spacecraft to capture close-up images, could be more accurate in cases where asteroid< ...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 1 day agoThe more we look into space with increasingly sensitive tools like NASA’s James Webb Telescope...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 22 hours agoWith the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. A couple of years ago ...
Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen
New Scientist· 5 days agoAn asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds,...
New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
Gizmodo· 7 days agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...