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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest ...
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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
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Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense
A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...
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NASA alert! A massive 370-ft asteroid as big as a 35-storey building set to pass Earth – know more about the speed and time
They mostly go by harmlessly, but one will be devastating in its impact, and that is the very reason why monitoring and ...