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The estimated speed of the meteor, around 60 km/s (37 mi/s), was likely produced in the innermost cores [clarification needed] of another stellar system. [24] A 2019 study by Jorge I. Zuluaga published as a research note by the American Astronomical Society concluded that even if the direction were completely unknown, the probability that CNEOS ...
The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) facility for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their probability of Earth impact. [1] [2] CNEOS is located at, and operated by, Caltech in Pasadena, California. CNEOS computes high-precision orbits for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).
Sentry is an automated impact prediction system started in 2002 and operated by the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It continually monitors the most up-to-date asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100+ years. [1]
Eight years ago, CNEOS 2014-01-08 tore through Earth’s atmosphere at over 100,000 miles per hour.
[98] [164] Both NASA's CNEOS [2] and ESA's NEOCC [26] restrict their definition of NECs to short-period comets. As of December 30, 2024, 123 such objects have been discovered. [1] Comet 109P/Swift–Tuttle, which is also the source of the Perseid meteor shower every year in August, has a roughly 130-year orbit that passes close to the Earth ...
CNEOS 2014-01-08 (also known as Interstellar meteor 1; IM1), [70] [71] [72] a meteor with a mass of 0.46 tons and width of 0.45 m (1.5 ft), burned up in the Earth's atmosphere on January 8, 2014. [4] [10] A 2019 preprint suggested this meteor had been of interstellar origin.
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth.Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces.
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