A skull-shaped asteroid or say a comet is estimated to flyby Earth on November 11 at a distance of just 25 million miles which is peanuts according to the astronomical distance standards. Named as ‘Asteroid 2015 TB145’, the asteroid was nicknamed as ‘The Great Pumpkin’ by officials at NASA when it was first discovered during …
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This Wednesday, encounter a giant asteroid that will whiz closest to the Earth at a phenomenal speed of 20,000mph. Dubbed as 2016 NF23, the asteroid has a diameter of 500 ft which is bigger compared to Great Pyramid of Giza Egypt which has a diameter of 451 ft and thus, NASA classified the object as …
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If you follow space exploration missions closely, you know that NASA had launched a mission named OSIRIS-REx in September 2016 towards an asteroid named Bennu which is a 1,650-foot-wide space rock millions of kilometers away from the Earth. After two years, OSIRIS-REx has finally snapped its first photos of its target Bennu from a distance …
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A space rock the size of two London red buses will hurtle past the Earth at a velocity of 6.7 kilometers per second or 14,987mph and could cause grave damage if it were to hit our planet. According to NASA, the Asteroid 201 8NM is about 62 feet or 19m in size and it will …
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