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Asteroid with potential of smashing into Earth spotted by scientists - before object revealed to be something very different
Harvard astronomers were left red-faced after mistaking Elon Musk's orbiting Tesla Roadster for a potentially dangerous ...
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Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster
The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...
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Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Not Have Been As Deadly as We Thought
Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...
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What If The Solar System Had a Super-Earth? Here's What Would Happen.
Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...
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It’s Not Sci-Fi: Americans Support Asteroid Defense Spending
In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...
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Asteroid Apophis and its End-Time Message
The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...
Teen astronomer from Noida makes astounding asteroid discovery – NASA reacts!
A 14-year-old Noida student, Daksh Malik, identifies an asteroid through NASA's International Asteroid Discovery Project.