There are also reports of two other asteroids expected to pass Earth on Sunday called 2016 DY30 and 2020 ME3. Photo: Reuters The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has warned that a massive asteroid, traveling at a speed of 48,000 kilometers per hour, is expected to pass Earth this …
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Google Doodle celebrates Dilhan Eryurt’s life with a caricature of the late Turkish astrophysicist. The image sees Eryurt, who died in 2012, looking at stars and planets, whose origins he helped discover for NASA in the 1960s. Born in western Turkey in 1926, Eryurt graduated with a degree in mathematics …
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NASA Administrator Jim BridenstineJames (Jim) Frederick BridenstineHouse’s appropriators cut NASA’s moon landing funds; Will the Senate do better? NASA names DC headquarters after the agency’s first black engineer Mary W. Jackson. He is tirelessly forming an international coalition to support Artemis’s return to the moon program. Recently, Bridenstine signed a …
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Humans are returning to the moon. But how are they going to “go” when they get there? NASA wants to build a better bathroom for astronauts on its next Artemis mission, a moon excursion with a target date of 2024. And it wants the public to help. The agency has …
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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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