It has since been confirmed that 2022 AE1 will not impact Earth and has been removed from ESA's risk list. So, what's the story behind the excitement, and how can we trust this seemingly "meandering" impact risk?
"In January this year, we became aware of an asteroid with the highest ranking on the Palermo scale that we've seen in more than a decade, reaching -1.5," explains Marco Micheli, astronomer at ESA's NEOCC.
Wyoming craters could point to asteroid impact | State & Regional | billingsgazette.com
This map shows the trajectories of ejecta fragments from a theorized asteroid impact some 280 million years ago. Researchers say the orientation of confirmed and possible craters, marked with circles, show that the impact would have occurred in or near the southwest Nebraska Panhandle.
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It's one of the theories being proposed to explain why the object, which measures 140 miles/226 kilometers in diameter and orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, shines so brightly.
NASA will send its Psyche spacecraft to 16 Psyche later this year. It will arrive in 2026 and go into orbit in an effort to characterize the strange object.
Microscopic view on asteroid collisions could help us understand planet formation
Their study, published in Communications Earth & Environment , looked at how minerals within the meteorite were damaged by different impacts over time, meaning they could identify the biggest and oldest events that may have been involved in planetary formation.
"Meteorite impact ages are often controversial: our work shows that we need to draw on multiple lines of evidence to be more certain about impact histories—almost like investigating an ancient crime scene," said Craig Walton, who led the research and is based at Cambridge's Department of Earth
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid to pass Earth next week; should you be worried?
NASA Asteroid Warning: Burj Khalifa-Sized Asteroid Passes by Earth in March, Categorized as
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid is passing by Earth next week. Many astronomers are pointing their telescopes in the asteroid's direction in hopes of recording the event.
The space rock is estimated to fly by more than 3 million miles away from Earth, which is approximately 12 times farther than the Moon. This means the asteroid will pose no danger to the planet as it passes by from a relatively safe distance.
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