All posts tagged "asteroid"
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7.2KVehiclesWatch NASA’s Dart Spacecraft Smash An Asteroid In World’s First Planetary Defense Mission
The incredible NASA DART mission finally took place and the video will keep you on the edge of your seat. In a...
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22.6K1FutureAsteroid Is Approaching Our Planet, According to NASA
NASA has recently detected an asteroid approaching Earth, and it’s big enough to cause an explosion in the sky. We’re all thinking...
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2.4KFutureHayabusa2 Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Ryugu Asteroid
Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft back in November 2014 for a mission that sent it in the path of the Ryugu asteroid...
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2.9KFutureUnusual Asteroid Orbits The Sun In Just 151 Days
Astronomers have recently spotted an asteroid, cataloged as “2019 LF6”, who has set the record for the shortest year among those of...
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3.2KFutureNASA Spacecraft Snaps New Bennu Asteroid Picture, Finds More Interesting Data
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security Regolith Explorer) spacecraft has left Earth on September 2016 for a rendez-vous with asteroid...
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3.9KFutureA Large Asteroid Will Pass By Earth Again – Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About It
Some of you might remember that, back in 2013, a meteor exploded in an air burst over Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia, generating...
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5.7KFutureHayabusa2 Mission Leaves Asteroid Ryugu With Visible Damage
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 initially launched from Earth in November 2014 in order to rendezvous with the Ryugu asteroid at just the right...
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4.7KFutureSpaceX Chosen by NASA To Slam A Spacecraft into An Asteroid
NASA has recently announced that SpaceX has won a contract for the space agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. The mission,...
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2.8KFutureNASA Probe Captures Clear Shot Of Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security Regolith Explorer) spacecraft was launched over two years ago, in September 2016 with the...
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11.0KFutureA World First: Two Japanese Rovers Land Successfully On Moving Asteroid
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 was launched from Earth back in November 2014, backpacking on a H-IIA rocket, in an attempt to arrive in the...
