Asteroid 2024 PT5 to become Earth's 'mini-moon' for two months
“Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO) population and pull them into orbit, making them mini-moons,” the RNAAS information reads. “Sometimes, these temporary captures do not complete one revolution before dropping out of orbit and returning to their regular heliocentric trajectories.”
There are many theories on how to best handle a rare (but possible) cataclysmic asteroid collision with Earth.
Here’s how it works. NASA scientists have released fascinating images of an asteroid that zipped past Earth this week — revealing it to be the shape of a weird tumbling snowman. The asteroid, ...
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.
Researchers theorize X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to vaporize an asteroid's surface, altering its trajectory ...
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The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.
NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...
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