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Here’s what a Beatles song and a fossil have to do with a NASA mission to study asteroids
Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft to Make High-Speed Flyby of Asteroid Donaldjohanson at 30,000 MPH
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set for a high-velocity encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, marking a ...
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 ...
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'City-killer' asteroid that might hit moon has 'unexpected' shape, astronomers say
Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to smack into the moon in the year 2032, according to new research. A team of astronomers recently studied the ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft to fly past asteroid at 30,000 mph as it prepares for a bigger mission
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is set to fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson, located 139 million miles away in the asteroid belt.
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...
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Major update on 2024 YR4 Asteroid as scientists DOUBLE chances of it smashing into Moon
Bryce Bolin said: "This find was rather unexpected since most asteroids are thought to be shaped like potatoes or toy tops rather than flat disks." Based on the orbital characteristics ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
He discovered the fossil Lucy in Ethiopia 50 years ago; the spacecraft is named after the famous human ancestor ... there are two elongated but separate asteroids far apart.