Asteroid has 1-in-60ish chance of Earth hit
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com. An asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in the year 2029 was upgraded to an unprecedented level of risk Friday, Dec. 24.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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PARIS  -- A rock measuring less than 10 metres (33 feet) across zipped past the Earth at the closest distance ever detected, but it would not have posed any threat if it had struck our planet, astronomers said.      The "very small" asteroid missed the Earth on March 31 by the wafer-thin gap of 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles), according to an email circulated by the international network NEO News (NEO stands for Near-Earth Object)...
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p2pnet.net OT News:- There&#39;s a 1-in-45 chance that Asteroid 2004 MN4, discovered in June and spotted again last week, will collide with the Earth on April 13, 2029.
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and possibly help future scientists determine how to keep such space rocks from colliding with Earth. impactor on July 4, 2005, and the comet&#39;s rocky part will hit it at a speed of 23,800 miles an hour (10.
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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely.
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The chance of a football field-sized asteroid plowing into Mars next month has been increased to 4 percent, scientists said Friday after analyzing archival data.
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75-1 may be incredibly long odds at the race track, but that's a prohibitive favorite in astronomy. And astronomers say a newly discovered asteroid has one chance in 75 of hitting the red planet at the end of January.
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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 scientists said.
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A Nasa spacecraft set for launch on Thursday will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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There&#39;s a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added
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The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock.
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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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Failing to prepare is preparing to die AAAS Moves are afoot in the astronaut community to hustle the UN into adopting a treaty which would set a deflection mission in motion if Earth was threatened by a large asteroid impact.â¦
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- A mountain-sized asteroid made its closest approach to Earth at 6:35 a.m. Pacific Time (9:35 a.m...
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An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.
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Will the Earth be destroyed by an asteroid that could hit the planet in 30 years? It's unlikely the asteroid Apophis will ever hit the planet, but scientists are tracking such near-Earth objects.