By Mike Wall | SPACE.com – 4 hrs ago A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth’s neighborhood this weekend, just days after another space rock made an even closer approach to our planet…. Read More ›
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Newly Found Asteroid to Pass Within Moon’s Orbit on March 4, 2013
A newly found asteroid will pass just inside the orbit of the Moon, with its closest approach on March 4, 2013 at 07:35 UTC. Named 2013 EC, the asteroid is about the size of the space rock that exploded over… Read More ›
Asteroids and Meteoroids: Older Than Earth, Bringing Fire
NOTE: This video has beautiful footage and is extremely educational. We hope you enjoy it! Related articles Meteor shower in Russia unrelated to large asteroid predicted to make a close pass (vineoflife.net) Infographic: What’s the Difference Between a Comet, Asteroid… Read More ›
NASA Scrambles For Better Meteor and Asteroid Detection
SOURCE By Agence France-Presse Monday, February 18, 2013 15:40 EST NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a… Read More ›
The Flyby Clock: Visualizing a Century of Asteroid Encounters
by Alex Parker | SOURCE Due to the interest sparked by the upcoming flyby of 2012 DA14, I thought it would be helpful to place its flyby in an historic perspective. To do so, I put together a visualization of all… Read More ›
2012 DA14 Asteroid to make closest flyby in history
Posted on February 9, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol An artist’s conception of DA 14, the asteroid expected to whizz past Earth February 15 on the closest approach in history. February 9, 2013 – SPACE – Talk about too close… Read More ›
Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Evidence
From: Yahoo News By Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor | LiveScience.com – 5 hrs ago Related Content View PhotoArtist’s impression of a 6-mile-wide … View PhotoDoctoral student Bill Mitchell … The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is… Read More ›
Three-mile long Toutatis asteroid to zip past Earth this week
By Deborah Netburn|L A TIMES December 11, 2012, 3:20 p.m. Grab your telescope. The asteroid known as Toutatis will make its closest approach to Earth tonight. From Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, the 3-mile long asteroid will be about 18… Read More ›
