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  World Asteroid Day 2023: Five spectacular asteroid-struck places on Earth

  Travel | June 30, 2023 13:31 IST

  These asteroid-hit sites provide us with valuable insight into how asteroids have shaped our planet over the course of its history.

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  NASA's new secret about asteroids is shocking! Know more

  Science | July 25, 2022 3:00 IST

  The team analysed rock fractures on asteroid Bennu from high-resolution images taken by the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer).

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  NASA's 1st mission to distant asteroids prepares for launch on Oct 16

  Science | October 15, 2021 22:37 IST

  The Lucy mission will complete a 12-year journey to eight different asteroids: exploring one asteroid in the solar system's Main Belt asteroid and seven Trojans, the remnants of our early solar system trapped in stable orbits, and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun.  

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  NASA's Lucy Mission prepares for launch to Trojan asteroids

  Science | September 29, 2021 7:46 IST

  Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the home institution of the principal investigator for the Lucy mission.

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  Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas detect 8 asteroids

  Science | July 28, 2021 22:20 IST

  ​At least sixteen students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have detected eight asteroids under the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021, the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the government told PTI on Wednesday.   

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  World Asteroid Day 2022: All you need to know about Asteroids, its history and relevance

  Science | June 30, 2022 10:34 IST

  Asteroid Day is observed on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroid’s hazardous effect and measures to save Earth from threat.

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  School students in India discover 18 new asteroids

  Science | February 28, 2021 16:35 IST

  The International Asteroid Discovery Project was conducted by STEM and Space, an organisation working towards the learning of astronomy and space science in India, along with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) as part of a NASA citizen science project.

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  Japan’s capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia

  World | December 06, 2020 13:03 IST

  At about 10 kilometers (6 miles) above ground, a parachute was opened to slow its fall and beacon signals were transmitted to indicate its location in the sparsely populated area of Woomera in southern Australia.

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  SUV-sized asteroid passes by Earth, above southern Indian Ocean

  Science | August 19, 2020 11:54 IST

  At roughly 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) across, asteroid 2020 QG is very small by asteroid standards: If it had actually been on an impact trajectory, it would likely have become a fireball as it broke up in Earth's atmosphere, which happens several times a year.

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  Asteroid or comet impact caused extinction during last ice-age: Study

  Science | October 26, 2019 16:00 IST

  Archeologists continue to find evidence of an asteroid or comet impact pertaining to this time period, the study noted.

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  Largest of 11 ‘near-Earth’ asteroids to fly past our planet today

  Science | October 10, 2019 8:04 IST

  According to the European Space Agency (ESA), of the 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system, some 20,000 are NEOs and 800 are on the agency’s ‘risk list’ for observation.

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  Asteroids to enter our atmosphere, mid air explosion to cause damage?

  Science | October 01, 2019 18:45 IST

  NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has set its eyes on three asteroids who are likely to intersect Earth's orbit. All of these asteroids are hurtling through space towards the earth at a breathtaking speed of thousands of miles per hour.

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  Giant asteroids to pass by earth over weekend, slim chances of impact: NASA

  Science | September 14, 2019 17:26 IST

  Asteroids are serious business. Last time a big one hit the earth, it wiped off dinosaurs. Two such astronomical giants are going to be in earth's neighbourhood this weekend. But NASA has said that Asteroid 2000 QW7 & Asteroid 2010 C01 are unlikely to hit earth and are expected to just pass by.

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  ALERT! 3 asteroids taller than 'Statue of Liberty' to shoot past earth today; expert warns of hitting

  Science | September 10, 2019 14:04 IST

  Three asteroids are expected to shoot past the earth today, said NASA Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) tracks all asteroids. One of the asteroids ​monitored by the American space agency arm is the 2019 RG2, which will hurtle past at around 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) — closer than any potential asteroid near-miss for the next three months.

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  Taller than the Eiffel Tower, this asteroid is approaching us this Friday: Will it hit Earth?

  Science | September 03, 2019 14:45 IST

  Asteroid 2019 GT3 will approach Earth this Friday. The asteroid is almost as big as the Empire State Building and significantly taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris. But will it hit earth? Read to know more.

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  NASA picks new teams to study Moon, asteroids

  Science | June 30, 2019 10:38 IST

  "The discoveries these teams make will be vital to our future exploration throughout the solar system with robots and humans," said Lori Glaze, Director of the Planetary Science Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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  Not just asteroid impact, deadly malaria too killed dinosaurs

  Lifestyle | March 29, 2016 12:15 IST

  New York:Malaria often thought to be of more modern origin may have killed dinosaurs and the origin of this deadly disease may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100

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  Two asteroids to pass near Earth Saturday

  World | March 09, 2013 6:53 IST

  Moscow, March 9: Two asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month, will fly by the Earth Saturday, though not as close as to threaten collision.The