Asteroid

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November 23, 2022
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Stopping an asteroid at the last minute will be difficult, but possible, study says
(ORDO NEWS) — A group of experts is proposing the creation of a rapid response mission that could deflect a…
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November 19, 2022
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Scientists have calculated where it is better to hit an asteroid in order to effectively deflect it from the course
(ORDO NEWS) — A month and a half ago, the DART probe successfully hit the 170-meter asteroid Dimorph. Now the…
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November 17, 2022
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A unique meteorite confirmed the hypothesis about the asteroid origin of water on Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — At the beginning of 2021, scientists managed to collect fragments of a meteorite almost immediately after the…
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November 12, 2022
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A potentially dangerous asteroid 1.5 km in size has been discovered. Such asteroids are called planet killers
(ORDO NEWS) — Using the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile, astronomers have discovered three asteroids…
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November 10, 2022
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Destroyed Observatory issues final Asteroid warning after fatal crash
(ORDO NEWS) — After falling to pieces in December 2020, the mighty Arecibo observatory received the last parting gift to…
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November 7, 2022
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New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit intersects…
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November 5, 2022
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New ‘planet killer’ asteroid discovered
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have discovered a giant asteroid lurking in the sun’s glare that could one day cross Earth.…
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November 4, 2022
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A planet-killing asteroid hid in the sunlight
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have discovered three near-Earth asteroids that have been lurking undetected in bright sunlight. One of the…
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November 3, 2022
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NASA decides to explore an asteroid that costs quintillions of dollars
(ORDO NEWS) — The US Space Agency has announced that it is resuming the Psyche expedition. NASA plans to send…
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November 2, 2022
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Scientists have discovered an asteroid capable of destroying the Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists from Chile have discovered several dangerous near-Earth asteroids. All three objects are located in the inner…
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November 2, 2022
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A 700-meter asteroid is approaching the Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — A potentially dangerous asteroid is flying toward Earth. Its dimensions are gigantic, its speed is enormous. Should…
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November 1, 2022
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Astronomers have discovered a new potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid
(ORDO NEWS) — Over-the-horizon observations helped notice three previously unknown asteroids at once, barely visible in the bright brilliance of…
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October 31, 2022
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‘Potentially dangerous’ asteroid to fly by Earth on Halloween
(ORDO NEWS) — According to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on the night of October 31 to…
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October 31, 2022
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Destroyed observatory issues final asteroid warning
(ORDO NEWS) — After falling to pieces in December 2020, the powerful Arecibo observatory left humanity with a last parting…
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October 23, 2022
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Not a single trajectory : What you need to know to prevent an asteroid from falling to Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — At the end of September, NASA conducted the DART mission, during which the spacecraft was sent directly…
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October 23, 2022
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Hubble Space Telescope spotted double tails after a historic asteroid impact
(ORDO NEWS) — A few weeks after NASA’s DART space probe crashed into an asteroid, scientists noticed something unexpected –…
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October 20, 2022
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What will happen to the Earth 60 minutes before an asteroid impact
(ORDO NEWS) — Let’s imagine that this did happen in our time and a huge asteroid is about to fall…
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October 20, 2022
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An asteroid threatening the Earth began to behave strangely
(ORDO NEWS) — American astronomers have discovered that the asteroid Phaeton, potentially threatening the Earth, began to rotate faster and…
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October 18, 2022
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Astronomers have noticed a growing speed of rotation in an asteroid
(ORDO NEWS) — Near-Earth asteroid, which annually “waters” the Earth with the Geminid meteor shower, is behaving strangely. Scientists studying…
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October 15, 2022
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NASA spacecraft collided with an asteroid and changed its orbit as part of a test to protect the Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA says a mission to knock a distant asteroid off course has been successful, demonstrating a potentially…
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October 14, 2022
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Geologists have found that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs released the energy of 10 billion atomic bombs
(ORDO NEWS) — The fall of the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs led to catastrophic earthquakes. This…
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October 12, 2022
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NASA announced that they managed to knock an asteroid out of orbit using a space probe
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA chief Bill Nelson said the space agency’s mission to deorbit the car-sized asteroid Dimorph was a…
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October 11, 2022
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Trail from the impact of the DART probe into the asteroid stretched for ten thousand kilometers
(ORDO NEWS) — An accidental fall of an asteroid to Earth can lead to a very serious disaster. The chances…
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October 11, 2022
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Chinese scientists have discovered traces of an asteroid on the moon that destroyed the dinosaurs on Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — Chinese scientists examined samples of lunar rock brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission in 2020. Astronomers…
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October 11, 2022
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Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also caused a global tsunami
(ORDO NEWS) — When a city-sized asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs and…
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October 8, 2022
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Could an asteroid ever completely destroy the Earth?
(ORDO NEWS) — Meteorites and asteroids periodically fall to Earth. The last fairly large and memorable event took place in…
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October 8, 2022
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Impact of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused earthquakes that lasted several months
(ORDO NEWS) — New geological evidence shows that the global catastrophe caused by the fall of the asteroid Chicxulub was…
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October 7, 2022
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Once an asteroid hit the Earth much larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs
(ORDO NEWS) — A 15-kilometer asteroid that fell 66 million years ago in the Gulf of Mexico and formed a…
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October 6, 2022
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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused a giant tsunami – geologists
(ORDO NEWS) — The asteroid that caused the extinction of dinosaurs on our planet also triggered a tsunami 4.5 kilometers…
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October 5, 2022
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Trail from the impact of the DART probe into the asteroid stretched for ten thousand kilometers
(ORDO NEWS) — The SOAR telescope captured a long tail of gas and dust from the spacecraft’s purposeful collision with…
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October 5, 2022
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Scientists have found out whether an asteroid can destroy the Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — For a long time, dinosaurs were the main thing on our planet, but the impact of just…
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October 4, 2022
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Asteroid that left the largest crater on Earth turned out to be even bigger than previously thought
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have found that they still underestimated the diameter of the celestial body, during the fall of…
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October 4, 2022
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Largest asteroid ever to hit Earth was 25 kilometers across
(ORDO NEWS) — At a time when the Earth was inhabited exclusively by single-celled organisms, the largest asteroid ever to…
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