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Asteroid Hitting Earth

The US space agency says the 580-feet building-sized asteroid 363305 (2002 NV16) will pose no risk to Earth, although it is classified as "potentially hazardous"

Updated On: 23 Oct 2024 | 4:24 PM IST

A huge 720-foot asteroid '2024 ON' is expected to approach Earth today. The asteroid will safely pass at a distance of 997,793 km, but its speed is a matter of concern

Updated On: 16 Sep 2024 | 3:32 PM IST

Initially discovered in 2004, Apophis surpasses the size of India's largest aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, and the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the world's largest cricket stadium

Updated On: 10 Sep 2024 | 3:19 PM IST

A near-earth asteroid 2024 PQ5 is heading to earth at a speed of 28,128 miles per hour. Nasa issues alerts as the space agency closely monitors such activities to ensure no potential threats

Updated On: 20 Aug 2024 | 6:11 PM IST

Asteroid 2024 OR1 is part of the Apollo asteroids, which have been making their closest approach to Earth recently

Updated On: 06 Aug 2024 | 2:26 PM IST

Nasa confirmed that Apophis will pass the earth with just 38,012 KM or 23,619 miles. Here's all you need to know

Updated On: 04 Jul 2024 | 6:00 PM IST

Despite the lack of significant known asteroid impact threats in the near future, Nasa expressed concerns about our readiness to mitigate such a threat even with substantial warning

Updated On: 24 Jun 2024 | 2:48 PM IST

World Asteroid Day 2023 is observed every year on June 30, and it aims to spread awareness about asteroid impact on earth. Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of our solar system

Updated On: 30 Jun 2023 | 11:42 AM IST

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Centre for Near-Earth Objects (NEO) maintains a list of objects that may come close to Earth to understand the potential risk they pose

Updated On: 22 May 2023 | 2:10 PM IST

NASA issued the alert warning as an Asteroid is about to pass close to the Earth today, a bus size asteroid is passing at a speed of 48052 Km/h

Updated On: 25 Apr 2023 | 1:06 PM IST

An asteroid is classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) if its distance from our planet is less than 1.3 times the distance between Earth and the Sun

Updated On: 12 Apr 2023 | 3:04 PM IST

The asteroid was initially spotted by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov on Saturday and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC)

Updated On: 27 Jan 2023 | 7:47 PM IST

The mission is NASA's first demonstration of the agency's planetary-defense initiative to protect Earth from the possibility of a hazardous collision with an asteroid

Updated On: 27 Sep 2022 | 8:06 AM IST

Dimorphos doesn't pose any threat to Earth, but the DART mission is the first physical test in space of one of NASA's primary tenets: planetary defense.

Updated On: 25 Sep 2022 | 10:31 PM IST

Nasa estimates the asteroid's relative speed at around 8.16 kilometres per second

Updated On: 30 Aug 2020 | 1:14 PM IST

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site at the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) reveals that they will be fast approaching the Earth this month

Updated On: 04 Jun 2020 | 5:48 PM IST

The reason for this jump in the impact rate is not known but it could be related to large collisions taking place more than 290 million years ago

Updated On: 18 Jan 2019 | 4:39 PM IST

Scientific researchers trying to find evidence of how asteroid impacts occur at regular intervals

Updated On: 23 Jun 2017 | 10:36 AM IST

The warning comes ahead of the upcoming Asteroid Day on 30 June

Updated On: 21 Jun 2017 | 10:49 PM IST