Asteroid
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Potentially hazardous giant asteroid to zoom past Earth on Friday
Washington: A “potentially hazardous” giant asteroid is likely to come within about 4.3 million km of Earth on Friday, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2015 FF, has an estimated diameter between…
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NASA finds asteroid Bennu ‘aged early’ by Sun
Washington: Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx have found that the Sun’s heat fractures rocks on Bennu in just 10,000 to 100,000 years, revealing that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than…
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Researchers simulate defence test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth
Washington: NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the world’s first full-scale planetary defence test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth. Researchers now show that instead of leaving behind a relatively…
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International asteroid day
Satyen Mohapatra With the threat of asteroids always looming on mankind, the International Asteroid Day (June 30) gains importance for reminding us of asteroids and need for greater research on planetary defence.…
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe finds amino acids in asteroid samples
Tokyo: Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission, which brought to Earth samples from an asteroid in late 2020, has found more than 20 types of amino acids in it, according to Japanese space agency…
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NASA’s DART asteroid defence mission lifts off
Washington: NASA on Wednesday launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid.The DART mission lifted off at 1.21 a.m. EST (11.51 a.m. India time), aboard a…
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UAE to launch probe targeting asteroid between Mars, Jupiter
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced plans to send a probe to land on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter to collect data on the origins of the universe, the…
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NASA postpones launch of planetary defence mission
Washington: NASA will delay the launch of a mission which seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The launch of the mission, called…
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Asteroid 2011 ES4 to approach towards earth by Sept. 1
By Ratna Chotrani Hyderabad: The asteroid 2011 ES4 will make a close approach towards the Earth on September 1 and will be closer to our planet than the Moon said Dr. B.G.…
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Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth – the closest flyby on record
Washington D.C: Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known…
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NASA probe prepares for first asteroid sample collection attempt
Washington:Â NASA’s first asteroid sampling spacecraft is now just one rehearsal away from grabbing a sample from asteroid Bennu’s surface. The OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a final rehearsal of its touchdown sequence on…
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Giant asteroid to fly by Earth this week
Washington: NASA is tracking a giant asteroid that may be taller than the Empire State Building in the US, and it will be flying near the Earth on June 6 (Saturday). Given…
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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
Washington D.C.: A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail. The asteroid,…
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Japanese spacecraft bombs asteroid to make crater
Tokyo: The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 on Friday dropped an explosive on a remote asteroid for the first time to form a crater with a view to collect samples of its surface and…
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Hubble telescope images spun-up asteroid coming apart
Washington: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small asteroid in the process of spinning fast and throwing off material dusty debris. The Hubble images from show two narrow, comet-like tails of…
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