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Did you ever wonder how NASA spots asteroids that maybe getting too close to Earth for comfort? Watch and learn. Find out more about NASA finds, studies and tracks near-Earth objects by visiting https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense.
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Asteroid A relatively small, inactive body orbiting the Sun....
- Eyes on Asteroids
See thousands of asteroids and comets in real-time, see the...
- Asteroid Watch Dashboard
The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets...
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25 mar 2023 · At around 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT), it will zoom within 107,500 miles (173,000 kilometers) of our planet, according to astronomer Gianluca Masi, who runs the Virtual Telescope Project....
1 dzień temu · The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter.
27 cze 2024 · Shorty after 4 p.m. ET today (June 27), the mountain-size asteroid 2011 UL21 will come within 5 million miles of Earth, making it one of the largest space rocks to come that close to our...
2 lut 2024 · Here we explore whether there are any upcoming asteroid encounters and how NASA and other space agencies actively monitor near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to hit our planet.
26 sty 2024 · The asteroid will fly close to the moon just before 9 a.m. EST before zooming past Earth three and a half hours later at an estimated speed of 14,200 mph (22,850 km/h).
26 sty 2023 · When it passes by Earth at its closest on Thursday (Jan. 26) at 4:17 p.m. EST (2117 GMT), the space rock will be within less than 3% of the average Earth-moon distance at an altitude of...