Did an asteroid hit Earth last night? Where did NASA track it to?
If you happened to be in Russia’s far eastern Yakutia region on Tuesday night and glanced up at the sky, you might have caught an unexpected cosmic show. Residents there reported a brilliant fireball lighting up the night – an asteroid blazing into Earth’s atmosphere. The big question: Did it make it to the ground, and if so, where?
The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest approach today at approximately 12:26 a.m. EST (0526 GMT), passing just under ...
A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...
The asteroid is the 11th to have been detected by scientists before impacting Earth. However, due to its small size, it did ...
A small asteroid raced toward Earth on Tuesday morning, creating a fireball across the skies above eastern Russia, according ...
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Behold! These gorgeous never-before-seen space images are from a NASA space telescope that should have died long agoNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft launched to Earth orbit in 2009 and was placed in hibernation in ...
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'Spectacular' asteroid blazes over Siberia just hours after it was detectedC0WEPC5, as the asteroid has been temporarily named, entered Earth's atmosphere at 1:15 a.m. local time on Dec. 4 over Russia ...
“At 11.14am EST [16:14 UK time], a very small asteroid will impact the Earth’s atmosphere and create a harmless fireball ...
C0WEPC5's eye-catching visit was quickly followed up with a flyby from 2020 XR, a much larger asteroid at 1,200 feet in ...
WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...
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Asteroid to make “close pass” near Earth next monthAn asteroid is expected to make a “close pass” to Earth next month. In October, NASA confirmed that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 ...
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