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There's a slim chance an asteroid named for the Egyptian God of Chaos might bump Earth In 2068
Jeff Spry
Nov 12, 2020
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Is our Moon’s long-lost twin stalking Mars?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 7, 2020
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Oreo built a doomsday vault to protect cookies from an asteroid. No, we're not kidding.
Jeff Spry
Oct 28, 2020
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BOOP! NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx pokes an asteroid and collects the debris
Phil Plait
Oct 22, 2020
Debris from the surface of the asteroid Bennu blows away under the influence of nitrogen gas jets from the OSIRIS-REx TAGSAM device. Some of this material was collected and will be returned to Earth in 2023. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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No, an asteroid is not likely to hit Earth the day before the election
Phil Plait
Oct 20, 2020
… and I feel fine. Credit: Dean Reeves, used by permission
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No, we're not in any danger from an asteroid passing Earth on Saturday night
Phil Plait
Jun 5, 2020
Illustration of a near-Earth asteroid, created using actual space images of Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta; asteroid Mathilde: NASA/NEAR
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The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long…
Phil Plait
Feb 27, 2020
The path (in green) of the “minimoon” 2020 CD3, a small asteroid that has orbited the Earth since 2017.
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Whack 'em or nuke 'em: How to deflect a killer asteroid
Phil Plait
Nov 20, 2019
Artwork depicting NASA's Deep Impact mission, which slammed a 370-kilogram copper slug into the comet Tempel 1, to test the concept of pushing dangerous space rocks into safe orbits. Credit: NASA
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Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth
Phil Plait
Nov 14, 2019
Artwork showing Hayabusa2 arriving at the tiny asteroid Ryugu. Credit: Akihiro Ikeshita
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NASA is going to perform an 'autopsy' on a dead planet
Elizabeth Rayne
Jun 17, 2019
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There’s an asteroid coming Deep Impact-levels of close to Earth
Elizabeth Rayne
May 3, 2019
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Yes, Japan just bombed an asteroid
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 5, 2019
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft bombing a crater into the asteroid Ryugu
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We’re more doomed than we thought if an asteroid comes for us
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 7, 2019
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No, 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship. It might be even weirder.
Phil Plait
Feb 18, 2019
Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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Could smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid save humanity in the near future?
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 3, 2019
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A weirdly gorgeous galaxy and an interplanetary interloper
Phil Plait
Dec 28, 2018
An image of the galaxy NGC 3981 has an interloper: An asteroid passing between us and it, streaked due to the long exposure and colored due to different filters being used. Credit: ESO
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