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Dinosaurs were hit by small asteroid off coast of Guinea, scientists find

France24 24 Aug 2022

While it was not as impactful as the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, its ...

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NASA Prepares for World’s First Planetary Defense Test Against Asteroid Sept. 26

Space Coast Daily 24 Aug 2022

asteroid poses no threat to Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact its target asteroid, which poses no threat to Earth at 7.14 p.m ... – DART’s kinetic impact with asteroid Dimorphos.

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Asteroid discovery: Latter-day Saint teen discovers asteroid

Deseret News 24 Aug 2022

It’s an asteroid temporarily dubbed LPS0003. Because Peixoto is the space sleuth who spotted it, she’ll soon have the privilege of naming the asteroid whatever she wants ... She was pouring over previously studied images from a telescope in Hawaii when she spotted the asteroid.

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NASA's Moon-Bound Megarocket Will Send a Spacecraft to an Asteroid, Too

Scientific American 23 Aug 2022

The launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission will also be the start of the first deep-space rendezvous to be conducted by a solar-sail-propelled spacecraft ... .

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Scientists discover 8 km wide underwater crater: the asteroid left by it had a remarkable ...

Swords Today 23 Aug 2022

To be absolutely certain that the crater was caused by an asteroid impact, a scientist would have to drill into the crater and examine the minerals from the bottom of the crater ... It is believed to be caused by an asteroid over 400 meters wide that cut into the Earth’s crust ... An asteroid of this size hits Earth every 700,000 years.

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NASA’s Artemis I will deploy a solar sail satellite toward a nearby asteroid

Interesting Engineering 23 Aug 2022

One of these, the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout mission, will deploy a solar sail once it reaches space, allowing it to propel itself towards a nearby asteroid using photons from the sun. Once there, NASA explains that it will image the asteroid in detail and send the data back to Earth ... Investigating asteroid 2020 GE.

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Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System

Universe Today 23 Aug 2022

The “leftovers” of the cloud became the planets, moons, rings, comets, and asteroids of our solar system. Asteroid 162173 Ryugu contains grains of that ancient material from the long-gone star ... That’s because chemical weathering or other processes on an asteroid (or on Earth) destroy them ... Presolar Stardust in Asteroid Ryugu.

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Starwatch: be like the ‘celestial police’ and find asteroid Vesta in the sky

The Guardian 22 Aug 2022

Second largest asteroid was discovered by four German astronomers in 1807 while looking for a missing planet This week is a challenge.

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Aircraft-sized Asteroid to Pass by Earth Today at a Speed of 64,800 kmph

News18 22 Aug 2022

A 92-ft-wide asteroid will be ...

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Vesta: look up to spot the brightest asteroid, though it may take ‘a search and ...

South China Morning Post 22 Aug 2022

It will reach ‘opposition’ – lined up with sun and Earth – on Tuesday, when it will be visible without aid in dark rural areas, according to Chinese astronomer ... .

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Not one, but two asteroids might have slain the dinosaurs

TheNewsHOOK 22 Aug 2022

Not one, but two asteroids might have slain the dinosaurs ....

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Huge Crater Suggests a Second Asteroid Hit Earth at the End of the Dinosaurs

Gizmodo 22 Aug 2022

Scientists propose new class for asteroids within Venus's orbit - study

The Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2022

An example of an Apollo class asteroid is asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1), a large asteroid over a kilometer wide that passed by Earth earlier in 2022 ... And then there is an even rarer type of asteroid, the Atira class asteroids ... A good example of an Atira class asteroid is the asteroid ...

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