For an asteroid to be classified as a near-Earth Asteroid (NEA), its trajectory should bring it within 1.3 Astronomical Units (AU) of the Sun. One AU is the distance between the Sun and our planet. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), over 30,000 NEAs have been discovered so far, with most of the discoveries […]
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NASA has revealed that 101955 Bennu, an asteroid discovered back in 1999, has a surface that can be compared to a play area for kids, complete with loosely packed particles that make up the entire exterior of the asteroid. “It turns out that the particles making up Bennu’s exterior are so loosely packed and lightly […]
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NASA is set to launch a probe the size of a tennis court to the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter this year; where the remnants of the early solar system circle the sun. After the probe reaches the asteroid belt, it will zero in on Psyche, a large, metal-rich asteroid that […]
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A ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid, which is twice the size of the Burj Khalifa and four times the Empire State Building will zip past Earth on Friday, according to NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies. The asteroid, named 1989 JA, is estimated to be 1.1 miles long, two kilometres wide and is travelling at a […]
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