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5 days ago · An asteroid is called a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) when its trajectory brings it within 1.3 au from the Sun and hence with in 0.3 au of Earth's orbit. Browse through the whole asteroid database filtering on both dynamical, physical properties, observational parameters, and impact solutions. Orbital elements are presented at the present day ...
2 days ago · June 11, 2024 — Clouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster -- at more than 10,000 miles per second -- out among neighboring stars by blasts of radiation from the ...
5 days ago · In the next five years, we will be treated to a visit from asteroid 99942 Apophis and it’ll get so close, we’ll be able to see it with the naked eye. Indeed, the imminent fly-by is so special, the European Space Agency (ESA) had hailed it as "one of the rarest space events of our lives". “Scientists believe that an asteroid as large as ...
3 days ago · Dinosaur - Extinction Causes, Evidence, & Theory: The mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago remains a misconception; the fossil record shows that dinosaurs were already in decline during the late Cretaceous. Proposed causes for the extinction of dinosaurs have included everything from disease, heat waves, cold spells, faunal changes, and an asteroid collision during the K–T boundary.
5 days ago · 01 July, 2024. With a diameter of about 0.49 kilometers, Bennu is currently considered the a potentially hazardous asteroid. Nasa calculates a 1 in 2,700 chance of it impacting Earth on September 24, 2182. The OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from Bennu in 2023.
2 days ago · The Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman S. Somnath has said that the Indian space agency will conduct a study of Apophis asteroid, when it will be closest to Earth in 2029. Speaking to Akashvani news in Bengaluru yesterday on the occasion of Asteroid day observation in ISRO, S. Somnath said that 340 meters width Apophis asteroid will be ...
5 days ago · Conjunction Assessment. Collision avoidance orbital safety includes analyzing future predicted positions of NASA protected assets (called the “primary” object), and all of the other known objects in space (called the “secondary” object). On orbit conjunction assessment is driven by screenings conducted three times a day by the US Space ...
