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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
a flyby of the asteroid 21 Lutetia in 2010. The presence of metal at that time was inconclusive. A much more capable mission, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche spacecraft, is currently on its way to an ...
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'We cannot ignore this rock': ESA raises doubles estimated risk of impact of asteroid 2024 YR4
Asteroid Lutetia and Saturn. At a distance of 36000 km the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) took this image catching the planet Saturn in the background. (photo credit: ESA. Used under CC BY-SA 4. ...
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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth fluctuate as NASA tasked with studying it
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...
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'We cannot ignore this rock': ESA raises doubles estimated risk of impact of asteroid 2024 YR4
The European Space Agency (ESA) has raised the estimated risk of impact of asteroid 2024 YR4. Current estimate is 2% impact risk, doubling previous assessments. The asteroid has been given a ...