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Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from Moon

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A 100-foot asteroid to make a close approach to Earth today: Will it collide with Earth? Here’s what NASA says

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is tracking a fascinating cosmic event. A 100-foot-wide asteroid, 2025 BH2, will make its closest approach to Earth on 27 January.

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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon

Last year, astronomers on the hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids spotted something unusual. A space rock, now dubbed 2024 PT5 made several close passes by Earth, not quite orbiting our planet,

Study finds that Earth's small asteroid visitor is likely a chunk of moon rock

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new insights to asteroid and lunar science.

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Earth's recent asteroid visitor might've been a piece of the moon

"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...

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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Not Have Been As Deadly as We Thought

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

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What If The Solar System Had a Super-Earth? Here's What Would Happen.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

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Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

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Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

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NASA Tracking Washington Monument-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

Earth Had a Tiny Second Moon for a Few Months. It Might Be A Chunk of the Moon

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

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Asteroid with potential of smashing into Earth spotted by scientists - before object revealed to be something very different

Harvard astronomers were left red-faced after mistaking Elon Musk's orbiting Tesla Roadster for a potentially dangerous ...

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