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16 Jul 2020

Asteroid 2011 ES4 to fly past Earth soon at a much closer distance than moon

2011 ES4 id listed on the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies' Close Approaches' database It will fly past the Earth on September 1 at 10:49 A.M. Eastern Time. The asteroid will fly 0.00048 astronomical units away or about 44,618 miles at a speed of 18,253 miles per hour.

16 Jul 2020

Asteroid 2020ND, bigger than London Eye to fly past Earth on July 24

The Asteroid measures 130 m-280 m in diameter. It will be travelling at a speed of 13.5 kilometres per second or 48,000 kilometres per hour The asteroid will come within just 0.034 astronomical units (AU) of the earth on July 24.

OSIRIS-REx Mission

10 Feb 2017

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins search for Earth's Trojan asteroids

The mission, currently on a two-year outbound cruise to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu, will spend almost two weeks searching for evidence of these small bodies, the US space agency NASA said on Thursday.

18 Feb 2016

How 'burning' asteroids dispatch shooting stars to Earth

This study suggests that the parent objects were completely destroyed when they came too close to the Sun - leaving behind streams of meteors but no parent NEOs.

17 Jan 2016

NASA programme to protect Earth from asteroids

NASA, however, said that it has an asteroid impact and deflection mission concept in the works with the European Space Agency.

01 Oct 2015

New NASA missions to Venus and near-earth objects by 2020

In its quest to explore Venus, near-earth objects and bizarre metal asteroids, the US space agency has zeroed on five key science investigations among 27 proposals through its ambitious Discovery programme.

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