A video NASA released on Wednesday shows the debris caused by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos. (Courtesy: NASA / ESA / STScI / Jian-Yang Li (PSI) / Joseph DePasquale (STScI))
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office said they have been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a very small chance of impacting Earth on Feb. 14, 2046, when it passes the planet at a distance of about 1.1 million miles.
Newly discovered asteroid the size of a swimming pool has a 1-in-600 chance of colliding with ...
A newly discovered asteroid may make a perilously close approach to Earth about 20 years from now, with a roughly 1-in-600 chance that the space rock will collide directly with our planet, officials with NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office tweeted (opens in new tab) .
NASA is monitoring an asteroid that could collide with Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046 - CBS News
Out of the millions of asteroids in our solar system, there's a very small fraction known to potentially impact Earth. But scientists found a new one just two weeks ago that so far seems to pose one of the greatest risks of them all.
The asteroid, known as 2023 DW, was only first discovered on Feb. 26, according to the European Space Agency .
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Once, long ago, a creature not quite human walked the Earth. She was tiny in stature, the size of a child, with a much smaller brain. She probably communicated with grunts, hoots, and laughs, like chimps, but didn’t speak.
Upon discovering her bones in what is now Ethiopia, scientists gave her a name: Lucy. She was the first Australopithicus afarensis ever found, a hominin predecessor to people today. It’s not known if A. afarensis was our direct precursor or an offshoot from a common ancestor.
NASA tracks a new asteroid that has a ‘small chance’ of hitting Earth on ...
(CNN) — NASA's Office of Planetary Defense is tracking a new asteroid that has "a very small chance of hitting Earth" 23 years from now, on Valentine's Day 2046.
The asteroid, named "2023 DW," is 50 meters in diameter, about the size of an Olympic swimming pool, and has a 1 in 625 chance of hitting Earth, according to the European Space Agency.
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office has been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a very small c… https://t.co/eYiQFZwOEh KTVU (from Oakland, CA) Thu Mar 09 16:40:03 +0000 2023
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