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An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend. Called 2024 MK, the space rock will make its closest approach to Earth Saturday morning, passing by at about three-quarters the distance ...
A small asteroid was visible in northern Siberia on Tuesday, as it closed in on its collision course with Earth. The European Space Agency issued an alert for the 27-inch asteroid at 4:27 a.m. ET ...
An asteroid the size of a small truck will pass by Earth tonight, making one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded. Asteroid 2023 BU will zoom over the southern tip of South ...
Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid set to make a close approach to Earth on Tuesday. The 2024 ON asteroid measures 290 metres (950 feet) across and will come within 1 million km ...
The average near-Earth asteroid, such as 2019 VF 5, passes Earth at 18 km/s. The average short-period comet passes Earth at 30 km/s, and the average long-period comet passes Earth at 53 km/s. [ 8 ] A retrograde parabolic Oort cloud comet (e=1, i=180°) could pass Earth at 72 km/s when 1 AU from the Sun.
An asteroid the size of a football stadium will zip past Earth today. The asteroid, 2022 BH7, is one of four near-Earth objects making a close approach this weekend. (Fear not.
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2022 WJ 1, formerly designated C8FF042, was a small, harmless ≈1-metre near-Earth asteroid or meteoroid that impacted Earth's atmosphere on 19 November 2022 at 08:27 UT in Southern Ontario, Canada, above the Golden Horseshoe region, southwest of Toronto. [4] [9] [10] Meteorites were detected by weather radar during dark flight.