Asteroid

San Francisco: An asteroid, about the size of a box truck, will have a very close encounter with the Earth this week, NASA Systems has predicted. The asteroid, called Asteroid 2023, is expected to fly over South America. During its…
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New York: After 10 months of flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the world's first planetary defence technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target, the agency's first attempt to move an…
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Washington: A NASA spacecraft was set to smash into an asteroid early on Tuesday, in a bid to test a technology to defend Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards in the future. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a…
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New York: A small supersonic asteroid, travelling at ten times the speed of a bullet, will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, media reports said. The asteroid has been given the designation 2022 QC7 and it is not too big, with a width ranging…
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Space scientists of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has warned that a huge asteroid is heading towards the earth. The organisation is frequently monitoring the movement of the space rock, and it has named it Asteroid…
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Washington: A potentially hazardous giant asteroid is set to zoom past Earth with a 37,400 km/h speed on Thursday, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 418135 (2008 AG33), has an estimated diameter between 350 to 780 metres, revealed…
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Washington: The largest asteroid to visit Earth in 2021 is passing by our planet on Sunday at a speed of about 124,000 kmph. Although this speed is faster than the speed at which most asteroids encounter Earth, there is no threat of a…
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New York: An asteroid the size of an airplane is set to cross the Earth's orbit on Wednesday, according to NASA which expects that the space rock will not cause any harm to our home planet. As it crosses Earth's orbit, the near-Earth…
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has predicted that an asteroid is heading towards planet Earth. The 6.5 feet-long asteroid, which has been identified as 2018VP1, is expected to come close to earth the day before the…
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New Delhi: In yet another 2020 surprise, NASA data has predicted that a small asteroid heading towards the Earth has a 0.41 per cent chance of hitting the planet one day before the US presidential election that is scheduled for November 3.…
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