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24 Jul 2021

Gigantic asteroid '2008 GO20' nears Earth, likely to pass on July 25

"This asteroid has visited earth at a much closer distance of 19 lakh km and 29 lakh km in 1935 and 1977 respectively. At that time, it flew away and never came towards the earth," said Dr Pattnaik. As per Dr Pattnaik, '2008 G20' will be closest to earth on July 25, 2021 at 11.21 pm as per Indian Standard Time (IST).

21 Jul 2021

Stadium-sized asteroid moving towards Earth, likely to zoom past on THIS date

NASA has confirmed that an asteroid the size of a stadium is heading towards Earth's orbit next Saturday . As per Indian Standard Time, it's July 25 at 1:05 am Wednesday.

21 Jun 2021

16 Psyche believed worth USD 10000 quadrillions could be a rubber pile?

The asteroid may be a porous pile of rubber that was earlier supposed to contain 97% dense metal like iron, gold, and nickel 16 Psyche's bulk density, also known as porosity, which refers to the empty space is found within its body is around 35%

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.

30 Jun 2020

International Asteroid Day 2020: History, significance and other details

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun.

05 Jun 2020

Asteroid 2020 KA6 to pass by earth today – Here’s all you want to know

On June 5 and June 6, total five asteroids will fly by the earth.

04 Jun 2020

Asteroid 2020 KN5 to pass by earth today – Here’s all you want to know

According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the 177 feet wide asteroid will fly past earth at a speed of over 28,000 miles per hour on June 4.

03 Jun 2020

Two asteroids to hurtle past Earth on June 5 and 6

The largest asteroid named ‘163348 (2002 NN4)’ is estimated to be between 250m and 570m in diameter.

03 Jun 2020

Asteroid 2020 KE4 to pass by earth today –Here’s all you want to know

Scientists have stressed that it poses no danger to the planet.

02 Jun 2020

5 asteroids to pass by earth today –Here’s all you want to know

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun, but their orbits bring them into Earth's neighborhood - within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit.

University of Southampton

18 Jan 2019

Asteroids pummelled Earth, Moon beginning 290 mn years ago: Study

The reason could be related to large collisions taking place more than 290 million years ago in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

13 Mar 2018

NASA's 'HAMMER' spacecraft will swat away asteroids before they hit Earth

'HAMMER' stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response.

08 Feb 2018

Small asteroid to shoot closely past Earth on Friday

What is interesting to note is that the asteroid was discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona very recently – on February 4.

22 Dec 2017

'Spooky' – the eerie skull-shaped asteroid – set to return in 2018

Nicknamed 'Spooky' by some, the first radar images of the asteroid were generated by the National Science Foundation's 305-meter (1,000-foot) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

03 Nov 2017

NASA's Hubble captures distant galaxies as asteroids photobomb them - See pics

Asteroid trails can be seen across the image as curved or S-shaped streaks. Instead of appearing as one long trail, appear in multiple Hubble exposures that have been combined into one image.

21 Sep 2017

Scientists push for 50 tiny spacecraft to tour 300 asteroids

An infrared spectrometer analyses spectral signatures in light reflected or emitted by the asteroid to determine its mineralogy.

30 Jun 2017

Asteroid Day - Watch NASA's special broadcast on how it is protecting Earth from space rocks

The program will be aired on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

China space program

01 Mar 2017

China announces plans to explore three asteroids to understand origins of the solar system!

According to Efe, the priority of the scientists during this mission will be to detect asteroids close to Earth to calculate the probability of their colliding with the planet.

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.

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