Asteroid could hit the earth by 2009:
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[Technology India]: London, Dec 26 : A massive asteroid heading for Earth has a 1-in-300 chance of smashing into the planet in 2029, according to researchers.
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LOS ANGELES - It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets.    A NASA telescope recently discovered evidence that the most violent part of the process in forming an Earth-sized planet - the collisions between colossal chunks of rock - may last hundreds of millions of years instead of 10 million years, scientists said Monday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif...
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Toutatis, a mountain-sized asteroid, will today come the closest to the Earth since at least the 12th century, giving scientists an opportunity to gather data about it, NASA said on its Web site.
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At just past 6:30 am Pacific Time today, the mountain-size asteroid came within four times the distance of the moon to the Earth - a comparative measurement
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A draft UN treaty to tackle any future giant asteroids heading for Earth is to be drawn up this year.
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Scientists expect to detect a lot more asteroid threats with new technology, but it's still not clear what anyone will do about them. Randy Dotinga reports from the AAAS meeting in San Francisco.
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A recently rediscovered 400-meter Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) is predicted to pass near the Earth on 13 April 2029. The flyby distance is uncertain and an Earth impact cannot yet be ruled out.
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PASADENA, Calif. - Additional observations have ruled out the chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, NASA (news - web sites) scientists said.
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Earth is about to gets its closest brush this century with a massive asteroid, a hurtling space rock astronomers say is big enough to cause global devastation if it were to collide with the planet.
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HOLLYWOOD predictions of a rogue asteroid colliding with Earth and threatening life as we know it has become a real possibility according to a new warning from NASA.
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An asteroid the size of a large storage shed came within 4,100 miles of Earth this spring, making it the closest near miss ever recorded, US astronomers said this week.
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A MASSIVE asteroid heading for Earth has a 1-in-300 chance of smashing into the planet in 2029, say boffins. The space rock is believed to be more than 1,300ft long and was only rediscovered
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2029, April 13 an Asteroid named 2004 MNH of around 400 meters is predicted to pass near Earth, according to a recent discovery. The Asteroid orbits the sun once every 324 days.
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T-Rex was history before he was even born The dinosaur-busting asteroid that slammed into Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a collision between two monster chunks of rock 160 million years ago, out in the main asteroid belt.â¦
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For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before.
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There&#39;s a one-in-300 chance a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 400 metres long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday.
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There have been a couple of movies recently depicting the impending collision of an asteroid with Earth. It might not be sci-fi anymore.