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… and I feel fine. Credit: Dean Reeves, used by permission
No, an asteroid is not likely to hit Earth the day before the election
Phil Plait
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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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New study: The asteroid killed the dinosaurs, but volcanoes made things… better?
Phil Plait
Jun 30, 2020
Artwork depicting the last day of the dinosaurs, by the amazing Don Davis. Credit: Don Davis
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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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New simulation reveals how dino-killing asteroid smacked Earth at the perfect extinction angle
Jeff Spry
May 28, 2020
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Is our moon still rumbling from an ancient asteroid strike?
Jeff Spry
May 5, 2020
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Did a two-billion-year-old monster impact save the Earth from being a snowball?
Phil Plait
Jan 23, 2020
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Hey, maybe the dinosaur-killer asteroid really *did* act alone!
Phil Plait
Jan 21, 2020
Someone's about to have a VERY bad day. Credit: Shutterstock/Esteban De Armas
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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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A town with impact: Nördlingen, Germany sits in the floor of a huge impact crater
Phil Plait
Jun 4, 2019
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What astronomers mean by 'rubble pile asteroids'
Phil Plait
May 20, 2019
The asteroid Bennu, a “rubble pile”, seen by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of 13 km. Note the huge boulder on the lower right. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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Could larger space rocks be hiding in the Beta Taurid meteor stream? We may find out this summer.
Phil Plait
May 14, 2019
A meteor shower — in theis case, the Perseids — is usually composed of small bits material sloughed off a comet that burn up in our atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL
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UPDATE: The lunar eclipse impact was from a beachball-sized rock moving at 61,000 kph!
Phil Plait
May 1, 2019
A small asteroid, probably only a few kilograms in mass, slammed into the Moon during a lunar eclipse on January 20, 2019. Credit: Griffith Observatory
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The largest asteroid impact since Chelyabinsk exploded harmlessly over Bering Sea
Phil Plait
Mar 25, 2019
A natural-color image of the fireball and vapor trail from an asteroid that blew up over the Bering Sea in late 2018. Credit: NASA/GSFC
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