The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar systemMeteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...
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YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially hazardous object (PHO), meaning it could pose a collision risk to ...
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Defense," convenes on March 13 at the Xiangshan Hotel in Beijing.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!If an asteroid really threatened the Earth, what would a planetary defense mission look like ... A spacecraft like New ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
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