Phew! A truck-sized asteroid has skimmed past Earth
Rewrite this content AFP, published on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 11:41 am A small, truck-sized asteroid that suddenly burst out of the darkness a few days ago with Earth in its sights passed us without doing any damage on Thursday, NASA said. Contrary to what has been seen many times in Hollywood movies, no […]
NASA’s Dart mission: Probe crashes into asteroid, throwing it off course | life & knowledge
It was a space first for mankind. The goal: to save the earth! In a spectacular mission by Nasa and ESA, a probe crashed into an asteroid during the night – to throw it out of its orbit. Asteroid Didymos with its moon Didymorphos (at the back), which was hit by a dart Photo: NASA/via […]
NASA probe could have been swallowed up by the surface of asteroid Bennu
When we think of asteroids, we often think of a large solid rock floating in space. But there are asteroids that are not as compact as rocks, but rather have a crumbling surface. This is the case of the asteroid Determine which was visited in October 2020 by the space probe OSIRIS-REx. The latter’s mission […]
Video: This is how the passage of a giant asteroid near the Earth was seen | news today
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(Reference image). Asteroid 7335 (1989 JA), 1.8 kilometers in diameter, is the largest celestial object to pass close to the planet in 2022. Photo: Pixabay An asteroid, classified as “potentially dangerous” by NASA, passed close to Earth on Friday (May 27). The celestial body of 1.8 kilometers in diameter, that is to say four times […]
China wants to crash ships against asteroids to prevent them from hitting Earth
More and more people are interested in being able to change the trajectory of a asteroid. A job that previously seemed to only carry out the NASAnow too China, through the China National Space Administration (CNSA), is developing a plan to defend the planet from asteroids. In the United States, for this plan they have […]
The Vikings were already in North America 1,000 years ago! ; How did the Earth recover from the last major global warming?
© FUTURA SCIENCES And also: How the richest 1% could save the planet; The Lucy probe has gone on a long journey to encounter “fossil” asteroids; Japan’s largest volcano, Mount Aso, spews deadly fiery clouds. How did the Earth recover from the last major global warming? The Thermal Maximum of the Paleocene-Eocene transition, 55.9 million […]
Why are astronomers unable to discover some asteroids approaching Earth?
Astronomers did not notice the asteroid 2021 SG, which approached Earth on September 17, and did not discover it until after the asteroid fell directly near the Earth, that is, at a distance of 240,000 km from it, which is less than the distance that separates the Moon from the Earth. This was admitted by […]
Le Matin – NASA prepares to launch Lucy to observe Jupiter’s asteroids
NASA is all set for Lucy’s launch next month, a 12-year mission that will first closely observe asteroids in the same orbit as Jupiter, in an effort to better understand how our system is formed. solar. The Trojan asteroids, of which about 7,000 are known, evolve around the Sun in two groups, one preceding Jupiter, […]
At a speed of 33800 km / h. On the day of the equinox, a large asteroid will fly by near the Earth
The asteroid, twice the size of the Independence Monument in Kiev, will fly by our planet. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, asteroid 2021 NY1 will fly by our planet on Wednesday, September 22, at a distance of 1,560,000 km, writes Livescience. Read the best materials of the section on the page “Focus. Technology and […]
missiles planned to save Earth from an asteroid
Chinese space force points to asteroid Bennu as a potential danger and wants launch missiles to deviate it from its trajectory. The celestial body regularly crosses the orbit of the Blue Planet and could hit us within a hundred years according to experts. According to NASA, the chances of impact are relatively low, about 1/2700, […]
