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Named '2023 FM', the space rock is due to whizz by at about 35,000 mph (56,000 km/h), coming within 1.8 million miles of our planet at 14:09 BST (09:09 EDT) today.
It seems today if you want to make your name famous you have two choices – star in “leaked” home pornography tapes, or discover something that has so far eluded the capacity to be measured, find a way to measure it, develop a way to rank the measurements or place them into categories, and attach your name to the resulting scale. For example, the “Frater Scale” could be a ranking of items on a list - a better name for a "top 10 list" - where item 1 ranks as first on the Frater Scale. Not all scales are named after their inventors, but many are. It seems almost anything can b...
This week, space experts warned of an Olympic swimming pool-sized space rock which might hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046, with swathes of the US at risk - but how many more are out there?
Less than two weeks after it was discovered, asteroid 2023 DW sits at the top of the "risk list" maintained by the European Space Agency.
Earlier this year, the discovery of a potentially hazardous asteroid took astronomers on a roller coaster ride.