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2. Asteroids safely fly by Earth all the time. Here’s why ...

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   Here's what to know about Apophis and how space agencies hope to protect Earth from other asteroids like it. Apophis to make 2029 flyby to Earth. ... NASA takes on dangerous asteroids.

3. List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2020 - Wikipedia

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   A number of known asteroids came closer than this in 2020, notably 2020 CW, 2020 JJ, 2020 QG, and 2020 VT 4 which all approached Earth within 0.05 lunar distances. Two objects have been observed to be temporary satellites of Earth: 2020 CD 3 in February 2020 and 2020 SO in September 2020, albeit the latter has been confirmed to be a rocket ...

4. Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle - Wikipedia

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   After detecting many of the asteroids in the Solar System and observing their composition through meteorite remains, NASA has identified multiple large asteroids that may collide with Earth. To combat these NEOs, NASA has come up with the following design for an HAIV. The vehicle is split into two major parts; the leader craft and the follower ...

5. NEO Surveyor - Wikipedia

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   In 2005, the U.S. Congress mandated NASA to achieve by the year 2020 specific levels of search completeness for discovering, cataloging, and characterizing dangerous asteroids larger than 140 m (460 ft) (Act of 2005, H.R. 1022; 109th), [13] [3] but it never appropriated specific funds for this effort. [14]

6. NASA+ - Wikipedia

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   NASA Plus, stylized as NASA+, is an on-demand streaming service by NASA. It launched on November 8, 2023. It launched on November 8, 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It runs educational content, [ 2 ] and is available on iOS , Android , web browsers on desktop computers, as well as media players such as Roku , Apple TV , and Fire TV . [ 3 ]

7. NASA is intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid ...

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   NASA's DART mission will crash into Dimorphos, a small asteroid 6.8 million miles away, to test our ability to deflect space rocks from Earth.

8. This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids ...

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   On January 4, NASA announced two new space missions to explore the solar system: Lucy and Psyche. This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids — but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button

9. Potentially hazardous object - Wikipedia

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   The asteroid Toutatis is listed as a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, yet poses no immediate threat to Earth.(Radar image taken by GDSCC in 1996.)A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and which is large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of ...