NASA Just Announced That a Large Asteroid Has a 1% Chance of Hitting Earth. That’s Not Normal
SpaceThe asteroid, estimated between 130 and 300 feet in diameter, is similar in size to the object that caused the Tunguska event in 1908.
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Astronomers Thought They’d Found a New Asteroid Near Earth. It Turned Out to Be Elon Musk’s Space Trash
SpaceAstronomers rang in the new year with the discovery of a new asteroid. It turned out to be Elon Musk's trash.
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Scientists Have a New Origin Theory for Mars’ Potato-Shaped Moons: A Shredded Asteroid
SpaceA new paper suggests that an asteroid that got too close to Mars may have given the planet a temporary ring. That ring later became moons.
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A Meteorite That Boiled the Oceans About 3 Billion Years Ago Was a 'Fertilizer Bomb' for Early Life, Study Finds
SpaceThe S2 meteorite was 50 to 200 times larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Physicists Have Been Searching for a Fundamental ‘Fifth Force’ for Decades. The Bennu Asteroid May Have Brought Them Closer to Finding It
SpaceThe Standard Model of particle physics suggests that particles interact with each other under the control of four forces. Finding the fifth force would be a significant step forward for physics.
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NASA Crashed Its DART Spacecraft Into an Asteroid as a Test. It May Have Accidentally Created the First Human-Made Meteor Shower
SpaceA new meteor shower, the Dimorphids, could reach Earth in roughly 30 years.
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NASA Detected an Asteroid the Size of One of the Giza Pyramids Just Two Weeks Before It Passed 'Close to' Earth
SpaceIf it had collided with Earth, the resulting explosion would’ve been 10 to 20 times more powerful than the majority of hydrogen bombs.
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The Asteroid Bennu Has Just Revealed a Clue About the World It Came From. The Key Is in Its Phosphates
SpaceOSIRIS-REx is one of the most ambitious space missions in recent years.
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