A Truck Sized Asteroid Is Headed Toward Earth One Day Before The You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space But they’re vastly more complex than that: they show an incredible diversity in size, shape, composition and even On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth The space rock would burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere near the Philippines later that day,
New Algorithm Hunts For Potentially Hazardous Asteroids And Has Already Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple months About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the extinction of the nonavian dinosaurs 2024 PT5 will be a temporary visitor, arriving in September and flying off again in November NASA declared the two large asteroids “potentially hazardous” to Earth, which in another cosmic event is set to gain a “second moon” next week
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