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Antarctica's 500 Km Wide Crater Was Likely Caused By Colossal Meteor Strike, Says Study
The crater was first noticed because of a strange dip in Earth’s gravitational field. Back then, ground-based surveys using ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...
‘God Of Chaos’ Asteroid: It’s Exactly Four Years Until The Rarest Space Event Of Our Lives
On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...
NASA’s Lucy Captures Ice Cream Cone–Shaped Asteroid That Defies Expectations
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...
NASA’s Lucy shares striking close-up of Donaldjohanson asteroid
NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.
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Lucy spacecraft gears up for potential asteroid close encounter this weekend
The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) long and 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) wide at its widest point — resembling an irregular bowling pin. It's so long ...