Asteroid
Truck-sized asteroid misses Earth, passes closer than some satellites
Asteroid 2023 BU whizzed past without incident and back out into space
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Earth to have close encounter with small asteroid this week: NASA Systems
The asteroid was initially spotted by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov on Saturday and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC)
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Saving the world
DART can reduce risks from meteors
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TMS Ep269: Tata group consolidation, festival sales, markets, NASA
What is driving consolidation at the Tata group? What explains the bumper festival sales? Where should you invest as global headwinds blow? Why did NASA ram DART into an asteroid? Answers here
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Why did NASA ram DART into an asteroid?
American space agency NASA recently conducted a planned mission to hit a cruising asteroid in space, as a part of its first planetary defense technology demonstration. Let's find out more about it
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NASA's dress rehearsal: Spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defence test
A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 9.6 million kilometers away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 22,500 kph. Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid's orbit. Telescopes around the world and in space aimed at the same point in the sky to capture the spectacle. Though the impact was immediately obvious Dart's radio signal abruptly ceased it will be days or even weeks to determine how much the asteroid's path was changed. The USD 325 million mission was the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid or any other natural object in space. "No, this is not a movie plot," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tweeted earlier in the day. "We've all seen it on movies like Armageddon,' but the ...
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Earth aims DART to knock asteroid off course; now all eyes are on the sky
Scientists will be watching through the next several weeks to see how effective the impact was
NASA spacecraft rams distant asteroid to test Earth's defence abilities
The mission is NASA's first demonstration of the agency's planetary-defense initiative to protect Earth from the possibility of a hazardous collision with an asteroid
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NASA to ram distant asteroid in bid to avoid future catastrophes on Earth
Spacecraft's collision impact with the target asteriod uses 'kinetic impactor' method to cause deflection
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Asteroids: Risk & reward
Humans have been experimenting with the idea of space mining for several decades
How altering an asteroid's path today could save Earth tomorrow
The impact is scheduled for the next time it is close to Earth, in late September or early October 2022
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Japanese space experts to examine source of high heat on asteroid
Japanese space experts said Thursday they will examine soil samples brought back from a distant asteroid in an attempt to find the source of heat that altered the celestial body
How did water originate on Earth? Data from asteroid Ryugu deepen mystery
Asteroid Ryugu was chosen for sending and returning a mission as it "belonged to a class of asteroids that are dark in colour and suspected to have water-bearing minerals"
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Japan's Hayabusa-2 capsule returns to Earth with pristine asteroid samples
About two hours after the capsule''s reentry, JAXA said its helicopter search team found the capsule in the planned landing area
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Japan's Hayabusa2 space capsule ferrying asteroid sample nears Earth
The landing of the capsule in Woomera in southern Australia is scheduled for Sunday, 02.00-03.00 Japan Standard Time.
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Japanese spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears Earth
The spacecraft might hold clues to the origins of life on Earth.
Nasa spacecraft touches asteroid surface to return alien samples to Earth
While the mission has been a success so far, it will take about a week for the OSIRIS-REx team to confirm how much samples the spacecraft collected. The goal is to gather at least 60 grams
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16-sec-action, 334 mn km away: Osiris to grab 1st asteroid sample on Oct 20
A well-preserved time capsule from the early solar system, asteroid Bennu could hold answers to the origin of our sun, its planets, and ultimately life as we know it
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Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Sept 1: Nasa
Nasa estimates the asteroid's relative speed at around 8.16 kilometres per second
An SUV-sized asteroid just made the closest fly-by of Earth on record
At roughly 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) across, asteroid 2020 QG is very small by asteroid standards
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