Did an asteroid hit Earth last night? Where did NASA track it to?
If you happened to be in Russia’s far eastern Yakutia region on Tuesday night and glanced up at the sky, you might have caught an unexpected cosmic show. Residents there reported a brilliant fireball lighting up the night – an asteroid blazing into Earth’s atmosphere. The big question: Did it make it to the ground, and if so, where?
The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest approach today at approximately 12:26 a.m. EST (0526 GMT), passing just under ...
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Asteroid to make “close pass” near Earth next monthAn asteroid is expected to make a “close pass” to Earth next month. In October, NASA confirmed that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 ...
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'Spectacular' asteroid blazes over Siberia just hours after it was detectedC0WEPC5, as the asteroid has been temporarily named, entered Earth's atmosphere at 1:15 a.m. local time on Dec. 4 over Russia ...
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Behold! These gorgeous never-before-seen space images are from a NASA space telescope that should have died long agoNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft launched to Earth orbit in 2009 and was placed in hibernation in ...
A small asteroid raced toward Earth on Tuesday morning, creating a fireball across the skies above eastern Russia, according ...
NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System found the asteroid, with the European Space Agency projecting where ...
NASA's NEOWISE mission contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects.
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Massive, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid due to make closest-ever approach to Earth tonight — and you can watch it liveThe stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter ...
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