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Occator / ɒ ˈ k eɪ t ər / is an impact crater located on Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, that contains "Spot 5", the brightest of the bright spots observed by the Dawn spacecraft. It was known as "Region A" in ground-based images taken by the W. M. Keck Observatory on ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.28% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1% ...
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known asteroid , discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily , and announced as a new planet .
The University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system captured the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over the course of one hour on December 27. - ATLAS/University of Hawaii/NASA/AP
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 [update] , 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 .
The rock was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile. The size, trajectory, and speed of the asteroid immediately ...
The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for ...
First asteroid to rank greater than zero on the impact-risk Torino Scale (it was ranked 1; now at 0) 1998 KY 26: 0.030: June 2, 1998: Approached within 800,000 km of Earth 2002 AA 29: 0.1: January 9, 2002: Unusual Earth-associated orbit 2004 FH: 0.030: March 15, 2004: Discovered before it approached within 43,000 km of Earth on March 18, 2004 ...