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2026 Cottrell, provisional designation 1955 FF, is a dark asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 30 March 1955, by IU 's Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. [ 12 ]
Sample return mission headed for the 469219 Kamoʻoalewa asteroid. June (TBD) [2] [3] Long March 5B: Y5 Wenchang LC-1 Xuntian: Low Earth: CNSA: Space telescope: 2025 (TBD) [4] Long March 3B: Asteroid impacter: Heliocentric: CNSA: Asteroid redirect test Asteroid orbiter: Heliocentric: CNSA: Asteroid flyby Planetary defense mission headed for the ...
The ESA’s Hera mission will launch a spacecraft in October on a journey to observe the aftermath of the DART impact, reaching the asteroid pair near the end of 2026. Together with a pair of ...
Asteroid (35396) 1997 XF 11 will pass 930,000 km (0.0062 AU) from the Earth. 2029 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will exit the Kuiper Belt. [4] 2029 April 13 Near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis will pass Earth at a relatively small distance of 31,200 km (19,400 mi) above Earth's surface, closer than some geosynchronous satellites. [5] 2029 June 26
The spacecraft and its two CubeSat companions are slated to arrive at the asteroid Dimorphos, and the larger asteroid it orbits named Didymos, in late 2026. Together, the three spacecraft will ...
A flyby by such a large asteroid only happens once a decade, Nasa says
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, 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.
China has announced its plan to test its asteroid monitoring and defense system that will attempt to alter the paths of space rocks as early as 2025. Wu Yanhua, the deputy director of the China ...