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As sky surveys improve, smaller and smaller asteroids are regularly being discovered. The small near-Earth asteroids 2008 TC 3, 2014 AA, 2018 LA, 2019 MO, 2022 EB 5, 2022 WJ 1, 2023 CX 1, 2024 BX 1, 2024 RW 1, 2024 UQ, and 2024 XA 1 are the only eleven asteroids discovered before impacting into Earth (see asteroid impact prediction).
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
In 2022, Siraj and Loeb reported the discovery of an additional candidate interstellar meteor, CNEOS 2017-03-09, in a preprint using the same fireball catalog as they used for CNEOS 2014-01-08 (see below). They find that the implied material strength of the two objects (these are the highest and third-highest of the catalog's 273 fireballs ...
The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August.The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis.
Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event [1] which is held on June 30, the anniversary of the Tunguska event in 1908 when a meteor air burst levelled about 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest in Siberia, Russia.
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The July–August 2022 United States floods begin. July 26 – Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Department of Justice is investigating Donald Trump's actions in relation to the January 6 United States Capitol attack. [280] July 27
July 2022 United States floods. Urban Search and Rescue Missouri Task Force 1 is deployed in Eastern Kentucky, United States. Health and environment. COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for a second time and will be in isolation.