Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
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A 14-year-old Indian boy from Noida discovers a new asteroid; here's how NASA reacts
has discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Soon, he will have the rare honour of naming it. The asteroid, provisionally named '2023 OG40,' was identified ...
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Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...
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NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
Asteroids in our solar system are mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally, interactions with the gravity of the planets can cause an asteroid to be ejected from ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
De la Fuente Marcos’ paper in September suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.
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NASA tracking massive asteroid set to whiz past Earth at 35,000mph in hours
The asteroid, like many others, is a result of the asteroid belt ejecting a rock that makes its way to the Earth's gravitational pull. However, it is still classified as a Near Earth Object (NEO).
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NASA Tracking Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid Approaching
A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 WY70, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly ...
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Noida boy, 14, picked by NASA to name asteroid he ‘discovered’
The IASC website states that before Daksh, five other students from India had managed to discover a named asteroid. In what Malik described as a ‘fun exercise,’ the three friends, like other ...
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
A new study of 2024 PT5 suggests it's no coincidence this asteroid is hanging around in our celestial neighborhood. This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which was broken off in a ...
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Astronomers announce discovery of new asteroid — only to learn it’s a Tesla sports car hurling through space
Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...