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Jun 26, 2024 · The asteroid is classified as a near-Earth asteroid. A massive "planet killer" asteroid is set to make an exceptionally close pass by Earth on Thursday, June 27, speeding past our planet at ...
3 days ago · Second Close Approach. Assembled into this animation, observations from NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar show the tumbling asteroid 2024 MK shortly after it made closest approach with our planet on June 29. The 150-meter-wide asteroid’s orbit was slightly altered by Earth’s gravity as it passed. Two days later, on June 29, the same ...
Jun 9, 2024 · Follow us. A bus-sized asteroid named 2024 JP1 is approaching Earth at 14,400 kilometers per hour, closely monitored by astronomers. Despite its fast speed, it's not considered a threat, expected ...
2 days ago · Asteroid Day is observed every year by the space community on June 30 on account of a huge air blast from an asteroid flattening 2,200 sq km of forest in Siberia, Russia, on June 30, 1908. Asteroids are hypothesized to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs. The event to mark International Asteroid Day was held on Wednesday at ISRO.
12 hours ago · A massive asteroid, comparable to the size of the Statue of Liberty, is approaching the Earth at a surprising speed of 65, 215 km/hr. The asteroid -- named 2024 MT1 -- measures around 60 feet in ...
1 day ago · NASA warns of asteroid 2024 MT1, the size of the Statue of Liberty, approaching Earth at 65,215 km/h. Expected closest on July 8, 2024, it poses no immediate threat at 1.5 million km away. The ...
Jun 22, 2024 · Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, alerted about a plane-sized asteroid that is expected to make its closest approach to Earth today. This ...
