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How do astronomers track asteroids that could threaten Earth?
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Scientific American8d
How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?
How do astronomers find these asteroids and then determine where they ... Once a new moving object is found, its orbit needs to be determined. Is it on a circular path out past Mars, or does ...
Newsweek11d
NASA Tracking Three Vehicle-Sized Asteroids Nearing Earth Today
"Scientists continuously monitor Earth-crossing asteroids, whose paths intersect Earth's orbit, and near-Earth asteroids ... near the close of World War II. Do you have a tip on a science story ...
USA Today6d
Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth.
Should any asteroids ever do pose a serious threat to Earth ... changed as astronomers tracked it and learned more about the orbit of the asteroid. A radar observation campaign in March 2021 ...
CNN7d
Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problem
Right now, Chodas estimates there are about 100 human-made objects in orbit around the ... can efficiently do their jobs — tracking potentially hazardous asteroids and attempting to gain a ...
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Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth.
Should any asteroids ever do pose a serious threat to Earth ... changed as astronomers tracked it and learned more about the orbit of the asteroid. The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-APEX hovers over ...