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The DART mission will hit an asteroid in less than 100 days to demonstrate a new technology that can deflect future asteroids headed towards Earth.

A giant asteroid, approximately four times larger than the Empire State Building, will zip past the Earth on May 27.

Gratitude to a gentleman named bill gray with a company called pluto projects he helps professional and amateur astronomers monitor earth objects. funny, boris and christi, nobody was monitoring this for us. thank goodness bill has been. what we know, its too close to the sun right now. around february 8th well get a glimpse of this thing. its about 49 feet long, 4,000 tons. when it does impact the moon its going 5600 miles per hour. well get a glimpse around february 7th or 8th, according to bi...

It seems one can’t buy a car these days that isn’t equipped with obstacle-detection and accident-avoidance systems to compensate for the blind spots that hide these dangerous encounters. Too bad the same isn’t true for planets! NASA just revealed that its fancy-schmancy asteroid detection system has a major blind spot that causes it to miss... Read more »

In January, NASA warns that at least FIVE asteroids will approach Earth, one of which is the size of Big Ben.

Asteroid 2019 MB4 will flyby Earth at 0.82 LD / 0.00211 AU (315 651 km / 196 136 miles) at 12.50 pm on July 9, 2019. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) - pass the Earth on a regular basis but this asteroid will make an exceptionally close flyby, according to reports. Asteroid estimated to be 22m long, dubbed as 2019 MB4 will pass at just 315 000 km from Earth, a closer distance than the moon. Asteroid 2019 MB4 was only discovered on June 29. Its closest approach to Earth is expected at a speed (relative

Of a football field, and they can cause major damage. so a group of scientists at nasas defense coordinating office keeps track of many of those near-earth objects, and today they start a mission that could help us avoid a cataclysmic scenario. earlier this morning, they launched a spacecraft that is going to be on a 10-month journey to a binary astroid 6 million miles away from earth, where luckily they pose no danger to us. if all goes according to plan, the spacecraft will crash into the smal...

If you switch to cabenuva, attend all treatment appointments. with once-a-month cabenuva, im good to go. ask your doctor about once-monthly cabenuva. about once a year we get a visit from a car size asteroid. not impressive enough for a movie plot but it makes it cool fireball as it enters the earths atmosphere, burdens up before it reaches the surface of the earth. about every few thousand years. we get hit by an asteroid the sides of a football field, and they can cause major damage. so a grou...

We are all too dumb to know that except for you, neil. dont go ruining the dream. thats why people want to know about it. >> its a reality check on our pop culture. yeah. >> im just upset it was bruce willis. i dont like to see him go down in anything. lets talk about what this is with the man himself. now, here we are. okay? so what did they find that gives us such a great test subject here? >> so what we have going on here is we have the inner solar system, mercury, venus, earth and mars. and ...

>> so this is the asteroid belt. and to its a region of countless hundreds of thousands of asteroids, each with its own independent orbit around the sun. some of them cross earths orbit or come very near to us. and we call those n.e.o.s, near earth objects. so one of them comes near otherwise your waste a lot of eng energy going so far out in the solar system. the redirect test. lets look at it here. >> yeah, good. this is it. the next one well say what that is, the dark mission. all right, so t...