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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. [5] ... Asteroid 132524 APL viewed by New Horizons in June 2006.
132524 APL (provisional designation 2002 JF 56) is a small background asteroid in the intermediate asteroid belt.It was discovered by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research in May 2002, [1] and imaged by the New Horizons space probe on its flyby in June 2006, when it was passing through the asteroid belt.
CNEOS 2014-01-08, also known as Interstellar meteor 1 (IM1), [2] [3] [4] was a 0.45 m (1.5 ft) meteor that impacted Earth on 8 January 2014 near the northeast coast ...
NASA is additionally working on an asteroid-hunting telescope known as the NEO Surveyor to find near-Earth objects capable of causing significant damage. Set to launch no earlier than June 2028 ...
In 2022, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, whose sole goal was to fly 7 million miles to the 525-foot asteroid Dimorphos, and crash into it at 14,000 miles per ...
The asteroid's provisional designation as a minor planet, "2024 YR 4", was assigned by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] The first letter, "Y", indicates that the asteroid was discovered in the second half-month of December 2024 (16 to 31 December), and "R 4" indicates that it was the 117th provisional designation to be assigned in that half-month.
Graphical representation of the Torino scale. The sizes are approximate. Energy is in TNT equivalent.. The Torino scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets.
(29075) 1950 DA (provisional designation 1950 DA) is a risk-listed asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 1.3 kilometers (0.81 miles) in diameter. [5] It once had the highest known probability of impacting Earth. [12]