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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
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Asteroid 2023 BU will fly so close to Earth on Thursday, you might be able to see it
Take asteroid 2023 BU for example ... Additionally, it shows just how many asteroids are lurking near our planet that we don’t know about. Thankfully, NASA and others are working on asteroid ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is going to miss Earth, but the story doesn’t end there
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away ... we will have initial uncertainties about their miss-distance from Earth," Binzel said. "But just like YR4, with a little ...
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The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
The most serious near-miss, and the closest comparison ... had water on its surface billions of years ago. In 2023 scientists detected an asteroid called 33 Polyhymnia which could have an element ...