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Space & Cosmos
Webb Telescope captures photos of asteroids that do not hit the Earth in 2032
The image provided by the European Space Agency on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, photographed by NASA’s Webb Telescope shows the asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: European Space Agency via AP Webb Space Telescope took a photo of the asteroid that caused agitation when it broke through Earth’s hit list earlier this year. The asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered later last year, was…
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Look up: How Earth Protects itself from asteroids
The asteroid discovered in December is estimated to be 40-90 meters wide. This is about half the size of a Dimorphos. It is very unlikely that an asteroid that can extract an entire city will be able to hit Earth within eight years. But even if this asteroid rushes us down our path, experts say, humanity can now protect us…
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“City Killer” asteroids currently have a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA
This handout provided by NASA shows the asteroid 2024 YR4 observed on January 27, 2025 by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology. Asteroids that could level the city could hit 3.1% of Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday. Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for an alarm.…
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Ryugu samples cast doubt on previous ideas about the formation of carbon-rich asteroids
About 2 million years after the formation of the solar system, the first carbonaceous chondrites, consisting of dust, chondrules, early condensates, and iron-nickel particles, aggregated outside the orbit of the still young Jupiter. About 2 million years later, CI chondrites were formed by photoevaporation. These incorporated particularly large amounts of iron-nickel particles. Credit: MPS (Fridolin Spitzer) Asteroid Ryugu may not…
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