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Jul 3, 2024 · Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently tracked two asteroids as they flew by our planet. One turned out to have a little moon orbiting it, while the other had been discovered only 13 days before its closest approach to Earth.
Jul 9, 2024 · New photos of the recently discovered asteroid 2024 MK, which zoomed past Earth in late June, reveal that the massive space rock's orbit has been significantly altered by its close approach to...
Jan 31, 2024 · The 3.3-foot (1-meter) wide asteroid dubbed 2024 BX1 was spotted by NASA around 90 minutes before it hit Earth's atmosphere. It burned up upon impact, exploding and creating a fireball seen...
Apr 17, 2023 · Asteroid 2023 CX1 hits Earth, turns into fireball seen throughout Europe. Astronomers around the world continued to observe the asteroid through Sunday night into Monday morning, spotting it...
Jun 21, 2024 · Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole...
Feb 13, 2023 · Asteroid 2023 CX1 hits Earth, turns into fireball seen throughout Europe. Astronomers around the world continued to observe the asteroid through Sunday night into Monday morning, spotting it...
Asteroid Watch: Keeping an Eye on Near-Earth Objects. Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies ( CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects, predicts their close approaches with Earth, and makes comprehensive impact hazard assessments in support of the agency’s ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Not big enough to be a threat to Earth, asteroid 2022 EB5 hit Earth off the coast of Iceland on March 11, two hours after it was first seen.
Jun 28, 2024 · July 2024. Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about comets and asteroids that could pose an impact hazard with Earth.
Feb 13, 2023 · The 1-meter asteroid was discovered just hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere and almost 10 years to the day that an asteroid about 20 times bigger hit Chelyabinsk, Russia.
