Asteroid to make closest pass in 651 years
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A giant asteroid will make a close brush by Earth Wednesday -- at least close by asteroid standards. The 4.6-kilometre-long Toutatis will come within 1.5 million kilometres of Earth.
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A recently rediscovered 400-meter asteroid is predicted to pass near Earth on April 13, 2029, meriting the highest rating yet for a hazardous near-Earth object.
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An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a one in 75 chance of chance of scoring a direct hit on the red planet next month, NASA experts said in a statement Friday.
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Astronomers have observed an asteroid change the rate at which it spins for the first time, and shown that this is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never before seen.
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Tumbling through space like a fumbled football, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday.
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And snaps pics of Mars The comet-hunting spacecraft Rosetta has sent back its first sighting of the asteroid 21-Lutetia, one of two rocky bodies it will study en route to the comet 67p Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will not get anywhere close to the rock for more than two years, but has already begun sending back preliminary data.â¦
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When it launches in 2013 the James Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the Earth. That distance is currently too far for any astronaut or any other existing NASA servicing capability to reach.
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The Dawn spacecraft, which launches Wednesday, will be the first vehicle to visit one celestial body -- an asteroid -- and then power on to another. And the ion-powered craft needs only a small amount of fuel for its seven-year trip.
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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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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 giant Toutatis asteroid passes by the Earth on Wednesday at distance of less than 1.6 million km.
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Earth is heading for a cloud of comet dust that could produce an outburst of Leonid meteors on Nov. 19th.
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Astronomers are hoping for a spectacular high-impact collision next month, as asteroid 2007 WD5 zooms toward Mars
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There'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 that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.
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An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye, scientists projected Thursday.
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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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An asteroid named after a Celtic god of war will this week make its closest journey past Earth for 651 years. The space rock known as Toutatis will come within 960,000 miles (about 1.5 million km) of Earth on Wednesday.