Asteroid 2024 YR4: More than 100M people live in risk corridor by speckx

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We Could Stop Asteroid 2024 YR4 from Hitting the Earth [video] by perihelions

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Airplane-sized asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth by burdibox

Newly-discovered #asteroid 2023 NT1 passed about 1/4 the Moon’s distance on July 13, but wasn’t discovered until July 15, as it approached Earth in the daytime sky. It may be as large as 60 meters across, possibly larger than the asteroid that caused Meteor Crater in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/VLXB4ChTMJ — Tony Dunn (@tony873004) July 16, 2023

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Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft by sohkamyung

Images from the first month after DART’s asteroid collision. Each frame is the average over an entire night’s observing. The Didymos asteroid system is in the centre and the stars appear as streaks.Credit: University of Canterbury Ōtehīwai Mt John Observatory/UCNZ Last September, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smashed into an asteroid, deliberately altering

ByHackTechMarch 2, 20230Comments

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An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring–which might explain why mammals survived by thedday

An international team of scientists used synchrotron radiation to image and analyze fossilized fish from the Tanis deposit in North Dakota. Some 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. The puzzle of why so many species perished while…

ByHackTechFebruary 24, 20220Comments

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