Asteroid Will Make Close Fly by of Earth on Friday the 13th
NASA has been monitoring an asteroid which maintains an orbit around various bodies in the solar system and consistently passes through Earth’s orbit with the sun. 13 near-Earth objects in total are expected to fly past Earth in December of this year. Earth is set to have a close encounter with an enormous asteroid which is set to fly nearby … Continue reading
Number of Near-Earth Asteroids Grows
People using telescopes to stare at the night sky on December 20 or 26 might see a distant light traversing the heavens, but proclaiming it as a harbinger of a New Testament rerun would be unwise. The European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre advises that on neither night will the Star of Bethlehem be visible, but an asteroid very … Continue reading
Large Asteroid Discovered Last Week Will Make Earth Fly-by on Friday
An asteroid as big as the Egyptian pyramids is zooming towards Earth and will squeeze past us on Friday – if it doesn’t smash on to our home planet’s surface. Named 2019 WR3, NASA expects the space rock to make a “close approach” to Earth later this week. The space agency has classified the asteroid as a “near-Earth object (NEO)” … Continue reading
Large Group of Scientists Launch Campaign to Save Earth from Deep Space Impact
Asteroid experts all over the globe fear our planet sits in a shooting gallery of so-called Near-Earth Objects or NEOs. Approximately 66 million years ago, one of these asteroids wiped out two-thirds of all life on the planet and ended the reign of the dinosaurs. Today, four new NEOs are discovered every single day but many potential threats remain undetected. … Continue reading
Asteroid Size of 6 Football Fields Approaching Earth Vicinity at 20 Times the Speed of Sound
The object, which was discovered in 2006, intersects Earth’s orbit twice a year and is described as “potentially hazardous” due to its proximity to our planet during its fly-bys. A fast-approaching mammoth asteroid is set to skim past Earth in less than two weeks, NASA has warned. The space rock, identified as 481394 (2006 SF6), is estimated to be some … Continue reading
Asteroid Makes Scary Close Pass Between Earth & Telecoms Satellites on Halloween
An asteroid known as C0PPEV1 just came closer to us than any known Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) on NASA’s radar, passing the Earth at an altitude of just 3,852 miles. It was only spotted in the early morning hours of Thursday. C0PPEV1 was first discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, based in Arizona, before several other observatories picked it up. The … Continue reading
111-foot Asteroid Will Make A Close Pass of Earth at over 22,000 Miles Per Hour
Earth is soon set for another close shave with a hurtling space rock as an 111-foot asteroid is poised to skim past our planet on its closest approach for 115 years. First spotted by astronomers only earlier this week, the asteroid dubbed 2019 TA7 is set to fly by Earth at a speed of over 22,500 miles per hour at … Continue reading
NASA Increases ‘Planetary Defense’ Spending for Detecting, Deflecting City-Killing Asteroids
NASA has doubled what it is spending to help detect and possibly deflect asteroids on a collision course with Earth. Next year, the U.S. space agency plans to spend $150 million on its so-called “planetary defense” programs. Some of the money would be going to develop systems to detect asteroids and comets like the football-field-sized space rock that zipped past … Continue reading
Asteroid Almost Twice as Big as London’s Shard Tower Heading Toward Earth
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has previously claimed that the Earth has no defense against giant asteroids approaching the planet, with NASA and SpaceX currently developing systems that would help to redirect space rocks from bumping into the Earth. A monster asteroid larger than the world’s largest buildings, including London’s the Shard, will be passing near the Earth at … Continue reading
Seven Asteroids that are Headed for Earth this August
NASA has detected a total of seven asteroids headed for Earth in August. According to the agency’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the biggest asteroid from the group is five times taller than the Statue of Liberty. The first asteroid that will approach Earth is called 2019 ON. CNEOS noted that the space rock is about 180 feet … Continue reading
