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Near-Earth asteroid traced to huge crater on Moon
Clayton News Daily· 46 minutes agoA near-Earth asteroid has been traced to a huge crater on the Moon. According to lead study author Yifei Jiao, a visiting scholar at ...
Earth's near miss with an asteroid that left 14-mile wide crater on Moon
Daily Express· 2 hours agoThe Earth had a near miss with an asteroid that left a 14-mile wide crater on the Moon - with the...
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis's Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 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· 4 days agoYou may want to mark your calendars as scientists have predicted an exact date you should keep in...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 6 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and...
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have...
Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin
Forbes· 2 days agoEarth’s “second moon”—an asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself....
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid’s Birthplace
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 5 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...
New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
Gizmodo· 5 days agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen
New Scientist· 3 days agoAn asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds,...