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SpaceX to conduct 'humanity's first planetary defence test' to redirect as
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
California [US], November 24 (ANI): SpaceX is planning to conduct humanity's first planetary defence test to redirect an asteroid through Falcon 9's launch of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission on Tuesday (local time).
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Near-earth asteroid might be lost fragment of moon: Study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 11 (ANI): According to a new paper by a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon.
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NASA, ULA launch Lucy mission to 'fossils' of planet formation
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): NASA's Lucy mission, the agency's first to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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NASA's Lucy Mission prepares for launch to Trojan asteroids
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency's first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel, and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for launch on October 16.
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Asteroid '2008 GO20' will go past earth on July 25, no need to panic: Seni
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 24 (ANI): Amid reports that an asteroid of the size of four football fields is hurtling towards earth but will fly past, Dr Suvendu Pattnaik, Deputy Director of Pathani Samanta Planetarium here said that there is no need to panic as the same asteroid has f
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An object temporarily orbiting Earth is 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 4 (ANI): Using data collected at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and orbit analysis from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists have confirmed that Near-Earth Object (NEO) 2020 SO is, in fact, a
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully stows sample of asteroid Bennu
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 30 (ANI): NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 24 (ANI): Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, October 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements - acquiring at least 2 o
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 24 (ANI): Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, October 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements - acquiring at least 2 o
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touches asteroid
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington (US), October 21 (ANI): NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm on Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surfac
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School-bus-size asteroid to safely zoom past Earth
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighbourhood on Thursday, September 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometres) above our planet's surface.
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Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Sept 1: NASA
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], Aug 30 (ANI/Xinhua): An asteroid with diameters between 22 and 49 metres will shoot pass Earth in a distance closer than Earth from the Moon on September 1, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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