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Near-Earth asteroids

Asteroid 2008 OS7's last approach to Earth on the day before Asteroid 2008 OS7 passes near Earth on February 2, 2024. This series of images was taken by the powerful 230-foot (70-meter) Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna near Barstow, California Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Unexpected Discoveries: NASA Planetary Radar Images Reveal Asteroid As It Approaches Earth

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During asteroid 2008 OS7's final approach to Earth on February 2, 2024, the agency's Deep Space Radar collected the first detailed images of the stadium-sized asteroid
A large asteroid hit the Earth. Image: depositphotos.com

Astronomers have spotted another deadly asteroid. Could it be that we are missing more asteroids that threaten us?

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The newly discovered 2022 AP7 orbits the Sun every five years, and currently crosses Earth's orbit when Earth is on the other side of the Sun from it. Eventually its motion will synchronize with that of Earth and it will pass much closer in a few hundred years
Illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's LICIACube before impact with the Didymos split asteroid system. Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Griven

When cinema and reality come together in the mission of dropping an asteroid: the DART spacecraft is launched

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The DART spacecraft that will try to change the orbit of a double asteroid will be launched on 24/11. The producers of Netflix's space disaster film "Don't Look Up," about the discovery of an Earth-threatening asteroid, have scheduled its arrival on Netflix for its scheduled launch day
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is poised to touch down on the surface of asteroid Ben. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

The Osiris Rex spacecraft successfully touched down on asteroid Benu in an attempt to obtain a sample

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In the coming week, the engineers and scientists of the mission will try to estimate the size of the collected sample, and if it is smaller than the target of 60 grams, another contact attempt will be made in January
This is what the Earth would look like if it had two moons. From Wikipedia

Earth has a new 'moon'

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The asteroid Beno, as photographed from the Osiris Rex spacecraft from an altitude of 24 km. Photo by NASA

Asteroid Bennu - interim summary before Osiris Rex collects a sample from it and returns it to DHA

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Asteroids pass by the Earth. Image: NASA

Considerable amounts of water were discovered in the Bennu asteroid, did the asteroids bring the water to Earth?

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A photograph of the Beno asteroid from the cameras of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, from an altitude of about 80 km. Photo: NASA

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft reaches asteroid 'Beno'

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The asteroid Florence and its two small moons, in a different and detailed photo taken by the radar of the Arecibo Observatory. Source: NAICObservatory/NASA.

Greetings from Florence

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A near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: shutterstock

The UN declares June 30 as International Asteroid Day

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Imaging of the Osiris-Rex probe collecting a sample from the Bennu asteroid. Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.

A seven-year journey to retrieve sixty grams of an asteroid

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Imaging of the Osiris-Rex probe

NASA will launch the Osiris-Rex probe to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth

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A large near-Earth asteroid. Illustrative image: shutterstock

NASA reassures: an asteroid with a diameter of over one and a half kilometers will pass on Saturday at a safe distance

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Asteroid attack on Earth and Moon. Illustration: shutterstock

Oceans from the sky / David Jewitt and Edward D. Young

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An astronaut hovers near a small asteroid. Illustration: shutterstock

On asteroid studies, and their contribution towards the manned journey to Mars

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One of the proposals for a robotic mission to capture a small asteroid. NASA/JPL image

Preliminary designs of the asteroid diversion mission

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The threat of an asteroid impact on Earth. Illustration: shutterstock

Russia and the USA will cooperate against threats from space

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Probabilistic model of the trajectory of asteroid 2014 AA that entered the atmosphere south of the Cape Verde Islands. Photo by Asteroid Initiatives, LLC

A 3-meter-diameter asteroid fragment crashed over the Atlantic Ocean on January 2

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An artist's image of Mars, with asteroids passing by. Photo: NASA

Asteroids can shake and shed the ground due to the gravity of Mars

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The meteorite dust in a lake near the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, most likely one of the remnants of the meteorite that caused great damage there in February. Screenshot from RT broadcasts

In Russia, a meteorite weighing half a ton was removed from the impact event in Chelyabinsk in February; A large asteroid has been discovered that will come very close to us in 2032

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Asteroid 1998 QE2. Its diameter is 2.7 kilometers. Image: NASA

Again a relatively close passage of an asteroid to the Earth, this time it is a double passage of an asteroid and the moon

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DE-STAR - A proposal for a system of satellites that will repel or even explode asteroids as they approach the Earth. Image: Philip M. Lubin, University of California at Santa Barbara

Fend off threatening asteroids while still in space using a laser

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A model of the Arcade 100 space telescope that is being developed by the Planetary Resources company to locate asteroids with potential for mining minerals. From Wikipedia

The pot of gold at the end of the arch

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A proposal to launch a spacecraft to repel the asteroid Apophis

Russia wants to build a missile that will destroy asteroids that threaten Earth

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Artist's rendering of a near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: ESA - P.Carril

An asteroid will pass on the night between Sunday and Monday behind the orbit of the moon: link to a live broadcast of the transit

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