A seven-ton asteroid nearly six feet in diameter entered Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday morning before exploding and breaking into pieces over a suburb in Cleveland, Ohio, according to NASA.
A large asteroid could smash into earth in 159 years, according to NASA. Known as Bennu, the near Earth object has orbited Earth roughly every six years since 1999 when it was discovered, the New York Post reported.
An asteroid the size of a three-story building will pass over the Earth’s atmosphere a little more than halfway between our planet and the moon on Sunday.
Astronomers have their eyes on a large and “potentially hazardous” asteroid scheduled to make a fairly close pass by Earth on Tuesday.
NASA successfully launched a probe called ‘Lucy’ in the early morning on October 16. Lucy will analyze eight different asteroids over 12 years.
The year 2020 just keeps getting better and better with a pandemic, an intense election season, and now an asteroid headed towards Earth the day before Election Day.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday that it was keeping an eye on several asteroids moving closer to Earth in the next few days.
Like “a giant asteroid hurtling towards Earth,” climate change is a menace of gargantuan proportions poised to dramatically alter life as we know it, declared an article in the Irish Times Thursday.
Asteroid 2010 WC9 will pass even closer to the Earth than the moon on Tuesday — closer than it has been in 300 years.
