Earth, Asteroid and NASA

NASA Tracking Football Field-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow
WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
NASA Confirms Asteroid Larger Than the Statue of Liberty Is Approaching Earth Tomorrow
An asteroid roughly the size of a football field, 2006 WB, is set to pass close to Earth tomorrow, zipping by at a distance of 554,000 miles (891,576.58 km). While this is about twice the distance between Earth and the Moon,
Stadium-sized asteroid to zoom by Earth Thanksgiving week
Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects, which is not even the most exciting.
Stadium-sized asteroid to pass Earth Tuesday — what do you need to know?
Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid expert Nick Moskovitz said we know little about this asteroid coming by so close to Thanksgiving.
Asteroid 2006 WB to safely pass Earth on November 26
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, asteroid 2006 WB, with a diameter of 302 feet, will pass by Earth at 554,000 miles. This distance is roughly twice that between the Earth and the Moon. Asteroid 2006 WB is classified as a "near-Earth object" (NEO).
A NASA probe is on its way to asteroid made of gold that's worth 100,000,000,000 trillion dollar
NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, aims to explore a metal-rich asteroid worth $100,000 quadrillion, offering a ...
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Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came From
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
Asteroids pass by each day. Luckily, large asteroid crashes are uncommon.
Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...
Will NASA's Mission to $10 Quintillion Psyche Asteroid Make Us All Rich?
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
Experts reveal surprising way to save Earth from asteroid apocalypse
Spanish Scientists might have made it infinitely easier to spot space rocks heading for Earth — by calculating the ...
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Mars may have made its 2 moons by ripping an asteroid apart
Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a ...
Final data and undiscovered images from NASA's NEOWISE
While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...
As Earth says goodbye to 'mini-moon,' asteroid's possible lunar origin revealed
Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...
Earth bids farewell to 'mini moon' asteroid set for return visit in 2055
Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless ...
NASA Warns Of A Gigantic 310-ft Asteroid Coming Towards Earth Today: Check Time, Speed And Distance
A massive 310-foot asteroid is set to make its close distance towards Earth today. Is it potentially hazardous? Know all the ...