On 19 November, asteroid 2022 WJ1 became one of the many small asteroids to strike Earth, but only the sixth we ever saw coming. For the second time this year , humankind predicted an asteroid impact.
The initial discovery of asteroid 2022 WJ1 came from the Catalina Sky Survey – one of the major projects dedicated to the discovery and follow-up of near-Earth objects (NEOs) – at 04:53 UTC (05:53 CET) on 19 November 2022, just under four hours before impact.
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Sixty-six million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into what's now the Yucatan peninsula at 40,000 miles per hour. The impact ignited wildfires across the world, created global tsunamis, and caused the extinction of three quarters of earth's species – including the dinosaurs.
NASA asteroid smallsats stranded by Psyche delay | Space
NASA has removed the twin Janus smallsats from the Psyche asteroid mission after launch delays meant Janus would not be able to meet its science goals.
NASA's Psyche mission was meant to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this autumn, bound to study a metal-rich asteroid — thought to be the exposed core of a protoplanet — orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
Artemis 1's solar-sailing asteroid probe may be in trouble | Space
Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout was one of 10 cubesats that hitched a ride to space on NASA's Artemis 1 mission, which launched on Nov. 16. The spacecraft was designed to sail on sunlight to fly past a small asteroid dubbed 2020 GE about a year from now.
In particular, NEA Scout personnel are hoping that the spacecraft's unusual propulsion strategy could help them track down the cubesat.
Don't look up: When an asteroid was discovered moments before it hit Earth - India Today
Astronomer David Rankin discovered 2022 WJ1 just hours before it hit Earth and was captured in footage and cameras in Canada. Less than 3 feet in diameter, the asteroid was detected last Saturday, just hours before it managed to streak through a fiery entry into Earth's atmosphere.
NASA predicts, monitors approach of small asteroid over Canada
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) was able to predict and monitor the impact of a "tiny" asteroid approached Earth before streaking across the early morning dark sky on Saturday Nov. 19 and breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.
A time-lapse image taken by astronomer Robert Weryk captured the night sky as the space object streaked above on a path seen from London, Ontario in Canada before it dissolved in the atmosphere.
Was NASA's DART mission a success? | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
An epic trial run of a plan that may one day save Earth took place in September 2022. But what happened? And what next?
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on 24 November 2021, heading towards the Didymos system – a large asteroid orbited by a smaller 'moon', Dimorphos.
What if the dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out by an asteroid? | Tech News
But this catastrophic event made human evolution possible. The surviving mammals flourished, including little proto-primates that would evolve into us.
Imagine the asteroid had missed, and dinosaurs survived. Picture highly evolved raptors planting their flag on the moon. Dinosaur scientists, discovering relativity, or discussing a hypothetical world in which, incredibly, mammals took over the Earth.
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