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Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin
Forbes· 7 days agoEarth’s “second moon”—an asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself....
Near-Earth asteroid has been traced to a huge crater on Moon
Homenewshere.com· 4 days agoView of the Giordano Bruno crater from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. (NASA/Goddard/Arizona...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
SPACE.com· 2 days agoThe scientists behind the discovery say the tool makes it easier to find and track millions of asteroids, including potentially dangerous ones that might strike Earth ...
Factbox-China's missions to the moon - past, present and future
Reuters via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoIt later extended its mission with a fly-by of a near-earth asteroid "4179 Toutatis". DURATION: The...
Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks
GeekWire via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has...
Animation Shows Project Lyra's Ridiculous Maneuver To Catch Interstellar Asteroid
IFLScience· 1 day agoIn 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our Sun at 38.3 ...
How to Catch the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, Leftover Debris from Halley's Comet
Sci Fi Wire· 1 day agoThe 2021 disaster movie Asteroid (streaming now on Peacock) is just one of many cinematic stories...
Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 2 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 3 days agoFor the first time, scientists have traced an asteroid to its exact place of origin—a particular crater on the moon. Unlike most near-Earth< ...
This Day, That Year: What Happened on April 29
Gadgets 360· 7 days agoOn this day in 2020, Earth witnessed a significant celestial event as the mile-wide asteroid known as 1998 OR2 made its close approach, passing within...