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A Rare Rock from Another Planet Is Up for Auction — and It’s Expected to Sell for This Many Millions
A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 might smash into the moon
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...
Pieces of asteroid may have landed in Highlands, say experts
Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...
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'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more years
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...
This asteroid won't strike Earth. Here's why NASA is still watching.
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...
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Risk of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 rises to record level - USA TODAY
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of alarm because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding with Earth.. Among the more than 37,000 known large space rocks, it's the only one right now ...
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Asteroid Bennu: The space rock that almost swallowed a spacecraft | Space
Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid that was studied by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from 2018 to 2021. ... Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby .
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An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect | CNN - CNN International
On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new study reveals - Yahoo
The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details. The finding pins down the nature of the fateful space rock ...
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There’s a rock in space that may help us unravel how life started
A rock sample that a Japanese space probe collected from an asteroid suggests a possible source of compounds that enabled the development of life on Earth.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission will return rock samples to Earth on Sunday. - NPR
NASA's Johnson Space Center has built a new facility to house the asteroid rocks, and workers there have practiced opening the sample container in a setup that will keep the material uncontaminated.
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Another Lucy Bonus: Asteroid's Surprise Moon Is Actually Two Rocks Stuck Together - Gizmodo
The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but ...