A massive asteroid from NASA’s ‘potentially hazardous’ list that is two and a half times the height of New York’s Empire State Building is set to pass Earth later this month. With an estimated diameter of at least a kilometer, asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 is capable of causing a worldwide …
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According to the US space agency, Asteroid 2014 YE15, first discovered in 2014, will approach Earth at a distance of around 7,400,000km on January 6. As NASA considers objects larger than 150 meters and which approach Earth within a distance of 7.5 million kilometers to be ‘potentially hazardous’, the seven-meter-wide …
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Thirty-two years after the fall of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, nationalist conservative populism is returning there with a vengeance: the recent turn of Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and some other post-socialist countries – I call them a new axis of evil – into a conservative-illiberal direction worries us all. How …
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Hot weather and strong winds have descended upon the country’s northern province of Akkar, fueling multiple wildlife fires. On Wednesday, a massive wildfire broke out close to the town of Qoubayat, the largest Christian settlement in the region. Footage from the scene shows the flames spreading extremely rapidly across wooded …
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With the latest two recoveries, public safety officials have accounted for 188 of the 12-story Surfside condo’s residents, while 124 remain missing, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on Saturday in a press briefing. “The numbers are fluid and will change,” she added. Four bodies have been recovered, including …
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American reconnaissance aircraft P-8A Poseidon close to the borders of Russia in the Black sea, to intercept raised the su-27. About it reports RIA Novosti, citing the Russian defense Ministry. It is noted that control of airspace was detected aerial target over neutral waters, which was approaching the border of …
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Another crisis in Belarus creeps not exactly unexpected, but at once from all sides. The piquancy of the situation is that the problem starts right before the nervous time of the presidential election and this could have unpredictable and dangerous consequences. The standard of living of Belarusians was pushing the …
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In Ukraine on 24 may will be cloudy and rainy, the temperature will not rise above 26. Forecasters warned that some regions in the coming real storm. So, at night in Western and Northern regions, a day, throughout expected intermittent rain, storms in places in the Western, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsya …
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The last time the price of Brent crude oil hovered above $ 75 per barrel on 31 October 2018. The world prices for oil reference marks continues to grow at the auction on Thursday, April 25. So, at 11:00 the cost of the futures on Brent crude for delivery in …
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Coincidence? In November of 2018 to the Earth close asteroid 2015 TB-145, resembling a skull. The unusual surface of the asteroid reflects only about six percent of the sunlight, so it is dark. The size of a celestial body ranges from 625 to 700 meters, the period of rotation is …
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