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NASA has it down to 0.0017% — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for the next century. NASA has already proved it is capable of redirecting an ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid ... impact orbit tracked by video and photographic cameras," said Jenniskens. "That proves to be enough to start seeing some patterns ...

Geologic map of the asteroid ... astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. “This has been a decade ...

In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed ... first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago ...

Bennu is a so-called medium-sized asteroid with a diameter of around 500 m. This type of asteroid is more likely to impact Earth than the “planet killer” larger asteroids, but has been studied far ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The study, published in the journal Marine Geology, reveals ...

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Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating ...