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Astronomers spot largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of the Sun. These NEAs are part of an el
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Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth - the closest flyby on record
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 19 (ANI): Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometres) above the southern Indian Ocean
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Earth hit by more asteroids since time of dinosaurs, say scientists
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 20 (ANI): According to a new study, the number of asteroids colliding with the Earth and Moon has increased by up to three times over the past 290 million years.
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