SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / CNN) – Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divided US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming in on us. On the day before the presidential vote, no less. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on Nov. …
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CBS Detroit – There is a video on Youtube that says that we are about to have another “very close encounter” with an asteroid. What the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory calls “Near Earth Objects” or NEO. Now keep in mind that asteroids have approached or hit our planet for millions …
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Measurements from NASA’s Transit Exoplanet Study Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the strange environment of KELT-9b, one of the hottest known planets. “The rarity factor is high with KELT-9b,” said John Ahlers, an astronomer at the Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and …
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