A huge asteroid will fly by Earth in April 2029. It won't be close enough to hit us, but it will be close enough to study, so scientists are getting ready.
A huge asteroid will fly by Earth in April 2029. It won't be close enough to hit us, but it will be close enough to study, so scientists are getting ready.
Forged at the dawn of the solar system, a fist-sized meteorite has ended its millions-mile journey, safe and secure, in the hands of Mountain View scientists.
“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.” -Roger Zelazny
It's always the ones you least expect that get you the worst, it seems. I went to bed last night excited that Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 200,000 ton asteroid, was going to pass within just 28,000 km (or 17,000 miles) of Earth's surface, which would make it the closest pass of an asteroid that large that we've ever observed.