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Will DART slamming into an asteroid's moon cause it to tumble chaotically?
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Astronomical speed trap catches its 1000th asteroid
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Narrowing down the source of the dinosaur-killer asteroid
Phil Plait
Aug 17, 2021
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We're probably safe from an impact by the asteroid Bennu for another 300 years
Phil Plait
Aug 12, 2021
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Would Lamentis-1 have flattened Loki? The Science Behind the Fiction
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Jul 7, 2021
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Second mega space rock landed in the Ukraine 650,000 years after dino-killing strike
Jeff Spry
Jun 24, 2021
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Dating craters: Wolfe Creek is younger, Meteor Crater older, than previously thought
Phil Plait
Apr 29, 2021
Meteor Crater in Arizona is one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth. Credit: Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz
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Did a giant impact and a crashing submoon form the bizarre ridge around Iapetus?
Phil Plait
Apr 9, 2021
A close view of the weird ridge wrapping around the equator of Saturn’s moon Iapetus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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A half million years ago, Antarctica was hit by a blowtorch from space
Phil Plait
Apr 6, 2021
Artwork depicting a “touchdown jet”, a plume of superheated gas created when an asteroid vaporizes high off the Earth’s surface but still manages to reach the ground. This leaves no crater behind but still can devastate the land underneath it. Credit: Mar
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The Midnight Sky's apocalyptic disaster has us wondering: What cosmic threats are out there?
Cassidy Ward
Dec 30, 2020
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On Friday, a small asteroid passed just 400 km from Earth!
Phil Plait
Nov 16, 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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UPDATE: Incredible footage of OSIRIS-REx tagging an asteroid
Phil Plait
Nov 2, 2020
Moments before sample collection, the OSIRIS-REx boom and sample collector shadow stretched across the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Most of those rocks are a few centimeters across. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
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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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The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble
Phil Plait
Aug 26, 2020
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, showing the dark and light terrains; the furrows can be seen to the upper right in the dark terrain. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Emily Lakdawalla
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No, two approaching near-Earth asteroids won’t hit us. 2020, cool your jets.
Phil Plait
Aug 24, 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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Earth's asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago
Phil Plait
Jul 27, 2020
Pierazzo crater, an impact site on the lunar far side, just over the edge of the Moon as seen from Earth. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
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