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Additional precovery observations of the asteroid from 1990 were quickly found that refined the orbit and it is now known the asteroid will pass Earth on 26 October 2028, at a distance of 929,000 km (2.42 LD). [3] [14] [15] During the close approach, the asteroid should peak at about apparent magnitude 8.2, [16] and will be visible in ...
Asteroid is a 1997 NBC TV miniseries about the United States government trying to prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth. The miniseries aired February 16–17, 1997. The miniseries aired February 16–17, 1997.
1997: 1,212: 49.5: Flyby: Largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft at the time 433 Eros: 13×13×33: August 13, 1898: NEAR Shoemaker: 1998–2001: 0: 0: 1998 flyby; 2000 orbited (first asteroid studied from orbit); 2001 landing: First asteroid landing, first asteroid orbited by a spacecraft, first near-Earth asteroid (NEA) visited by a ...
(433953) 1997 XR 2 is a sub-kilometer sized asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group.It was discovered on 4 December 1997, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program at Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico, in the United States.
After the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula more than 30 million years before these asteroids, its explosive energy resulted in irreversible climate change.
The 15-kilometer-wide meteorite hit land to make the 150-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater and in the process, wiped out most dinosaurs, mammals, and marine and avian reptiles (although volcanic ...
Asteroid designation Date of impact Location of impact Method of detection Estimated size Reference 2008 TC 3: October 7, 2008: Nubian Desert in Sudan: visual, weather satellite, meteorite recovery: 4 m (13 ft) [1] 2014 AA: January 2, 2014: Central Atlantic Ocean: infrasound: 2–4 m (6.6–13.1 ft) [2] 2018 LA: June 2, 2018: Botswana/South ...
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...