Paleontologists in the US may have discovered the remains of a Thescelosaurus killed at the moment of impact when an Everest-sized asteroid struck the earth and caused the extinction of dinosaurs. It was discovered at the Tanis site in southwestern North Dakota, which researchers believe holds a detailed record of …
Read More »Asteroid the size of two Empire State Buildings approaching Earth
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 …
Read More »2022 will start with a bus-sized asteroid approaching Earth
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 …
Read More »‘Hazardous’ asteroid to enter Earth’s orbit next week
Asteroid 4660 Nereus is expected to enter Earth’s orbit on December 11, coming closer to our planet than ever before. But there is no reason for panic, Boris Shustov, who heads the Institute of Astronomy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said. “The asteroid will pass some 4.6 million miles …
Read More »WATCH: SpaceX & NASA launch ‘planetary defense’ asteroid-smasher
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) vehicle was mounted on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and launched starting at 22:20 Pacific time on Tuesday (01:20 Eastern on Wednesday). This is NASA’s first ‘planetary defense’ mission in the $330 million program, and the first time SpaceX launched a spacecraft to …
Read More »NASA craft to crash into asteroid for Earth-defense test
Aiming to find out whether it’s possible to protect Earth from a potentially hazardous space object, NASA is sending a spacecraft to try and change an asteroid’s path by crashing it into the speeding rock. Called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission — worth $330 million — is …
Read More »RT’s Boom Bust asks if mining the ‘quadrillion-dollar’ golden asteroid will make everyone on Earth a billionaire
The so-called ‘quadrillion-dollar’ asteroid reportedly has so much gold and other precious metals, that mining it could make everyone on Earth a billionaire. However, it could also make precious metals worthless, leading to a possible collapse of the global economy. For more stories on economy & finance visit RT’s business …
Read More »Organic building block for life found on asteroid’s surface for 1st time
The researchers conducted a painstaking analysis of material taken from the S-type (siliceous or stony class of asteroid) asteroid called Itokawa, which was visited during the agency’s original Hayabusa mission back in 2010. The space rock is believed to be a chondrite, a largely unmodified space rock from the primal, …
Read More »NASA warns of STADIUM-SIZED asteroid headed towards Earth
When not keeping a close eye on its Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars this week, NASA is busy monitoring the sky for potential threats to life on Earth – namely asteroids. And this week is no exception, as five such space rocks are due to buzz the planet …
Read More »Rocky start: 2021 will begin with unwelcome, 220-meter wide asteroid visitor, NASA warns
Before that, this year’s final asteroid, 2020 YB4, measuring just 36 meters in diameter or roughly half the wingspan of a 747, passed by the Earth shortly after 6am UTC at a distance of 6.1 million kilometers. That means, in terms of the threat posed by space rocks at least, …
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