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NASA flags an asteroid with a potential Earth-impact trajectory

NASA flags an asteroid, the odds shift, and better tracking usually turns worry into a clean miss. The system improves each ...
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NASA alerts Earth to asteroid that could be on a collision path

NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...
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NASA: 100-foot asteroid to make record, but harmless, Earth flyby

The asteroid is called 2004 F-H and will pass about 26 thousand 500 miles away from Earth. It's 100 feet across and was detected Monday night by astronomers in New Mexico. Similar-sized asteroids are ...
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See it: NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft slingshots past Earth

It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just that, completing a dramatic slingshot past Earth before racing toward its next ...
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Learn About: NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Flyby With Asteroid Donaldjohanson

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Gallagher: Producer/Narrator Adriana Manrique ...
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How Earth's 2029 Approach Will Reshape Asteroid Apophis

What can the close flyby of the asteroid 99942 Adophis to Earth in 2029 teach scientists about the interiors of asteroids and other planetary bodies? This is what a recent study published in The ...