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How Earth fights killer asteroids: Inside the man-made planetary defense system
To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using ...
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...
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What would happen if a massive asteroid hit Earth?
What would happen if a massive asteroid collided with Earth. Stimulus check update: Trump details timeline for $2,000 ...
Yes, absolutely! When asteroids or comets hit rocky bodies such as the moon or Mars, they form impact craters that displace a large volume of material from the surface. Some of this material can be ...
CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
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