Asteroid
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Asteroid collision with Earth, Moon increased in last 290 mn years | Watch video
Jan 20, 2019, 08:49 AM ISTThe team studied the surface of the Moon using thermal data and images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and compiled the ages of all lunar craters younger than about a billion years.
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Asteroids pummelled Earth, Moon beginning 290 million years ago: Study
Jan 18, 2019, 03:12 PM ISTThe team studied the surface of the Moon using thermal data and images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and compiled the ages of all lunar craters younger than about a billion years.
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Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of home
Jan 09, 2019, 05:14 PM ISTNASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft took the picture days before going into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year’s Eve.
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Evidence of water discovered on asteroid Bennu: NASA
Dec 12, 2018, 12:52 PM ISTWhile Bennu itself is too small to have ever hosted liquid water, the finding indicates that liquid water was present at some time on Bennu's parent body, a much larger asteroid.
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NASA's spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu after two-year space travel
Dec 04, 2018, 09:59 AM ISTThe spacecraft's full name, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, has revealed its major tasks. It is expected to return the sample to Earth in September 2023, according to NASA.
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NASA probe on course to reach asteroid Bennu on Dec 3
Dec 01, 2018, 06:56 AM ISTLaunched in September 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has been slowly approaching Bennu, NASA said on Thursday.
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Japan's Space Agency JAXA releases stunning images from asteroid Ryugu's surface
News | Oct 01, 2018, 10:12 AM ISTJapan made it to history books last week when it became the first country to successfully land on the surface of asteroid Ryugu
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Japan space rovers lowered to asteroid to collect data
Sep 22, 2018, 08:15 AM ISTThe Japan Space Exploration Agency said the two Minerva-II-1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu.
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NASA spacecraft gets first glimpse of asteroid Bennu
Aug 26, 2018, 02:42 PM ISTThe spacecraft has travelled approximately 1.8 billion kilometres since its 2016 launch and is scheduled to arrive at Bennu on December 3 this year.
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Scientists discover solar system’s first interstellar immigrant
May 24, 2018, 11:36 PM ISTScientists have discovered the first known permanent immigrant to the solar system – an asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter’s orbit, that migrated from another star system.
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Giant asteroid 2018 GE3 makes surprise fly-by past Earth
Apr 17, 2018, 05:57 PM ISTNASA estimated that the asteroid measures 48 to 110 meters wide — 3.6 times the size of the one that levelled 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest when it exploded over Tunguska in 1908.
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Asteroid to smack into Earth in 2135? NASA says no need to worry
Mar 20, 2018, 02:04 PM ISTThough chances are there that a lot of living things on the planet might be destroyed due to this but forward-thinking astrophysicists have a plan to deal with this.
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'Potentially hazardous asteroid' to safely fly over earth
Jan 20, 2018, 04:20 PM ISTNASA scientists have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately.
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House-sized asteroid may smash into Earth in 2079
Oct 13, 2017, 05:57 PM ISTFollowing yesterday's pass, the asteroid's next 'close-approaches' to Earth will take place in 2019, 2050 and 2079.
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Asteroid to pass by Earth on October 12, says NASA
Oct 11, 2017, 01:29 PM ISTThe asteroid, which is estimated to be 15 to 30 metres in size, will pass just above the orbital altitude of communications satellites.
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In a first, NASA’s Hubble telescope observes two 'comet-like' asteroids orbiting each other between Mars and Jupiter
Sep 22, 2017, 12:32 PM ISTUnderstanding its origin and evolution may provide new insights into the early days of the solar system, NASA said
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Buckle up! Large three-mile-wide asteroid Florence to whiz past Earth on Friday
World | Sep 01, 2017, 03:12 PM ISTNASA says Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass by Earth on at 5.35 PM IST Friday and will be visible through telescopes for several nights
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Brace for a close encounter! Three-mile asteroid to whizz past Earth on September 1
World | Aug 18, 2017, 12:17 PM ISTFlorence will be the largest Near-Earth Object (NEO) to whiz past the planet since NASA began tracking them some 20 years ago
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2,000-foot long asteroid to fly very ‘close’ to Earth in April, NASA reveals
World | Apr 08, 2017, 10:16 AM ISTA large near-Earth asteroid will make a flight very close to earth safely on April 19th this year, US space agency NASA has said. The asteroid was discovered nearly three years ago.
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Astronomers observe tiniest ever asteroid with a two-metre diameter
World | Dec 01, 2016, 08:56 PM ISTA team of astronomers led by an Indian-origin researcher have spotted the smallest asteroid ever characterised – a tiny space rock measuring two metres in diameter. The asteroid, named 2015 TC25, is also one