On August 16, 2020, just after midnight Eastern (US) time, a small asteroid alerted our planet and traveled just 2,950 kilometers above the earth’s surface! Wow. That is close. That’s only a quarter of the earth’s diameter! The good news is that it’s missing, and even if it had hit, …
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A large asteroid is heading towards Earth and it will pass our planet next week. Nicknamed Asteroid 2020 ND, it is classified as Near Earth Object (NEO) and Potentially Dangerous Asteroid (PHA) by NASA. It is estimated to be 160 meters or 520 feet in diameter, but there is no …
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On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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