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A 500-Meter-Long Asteroid Flew Past Earth, and Astronomers Were Watching
An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building flew past Earth in early February, coming within 1.8 million km…
2 years ago
How Long is a Day on Venus? We Finally Know the Exact Answer
Using the radio-echo timing technique, a team of researchers have precisely measured the length of a day on Venus
4 years ago
Surprise! Earth Passing Asteroid 1998 QE2 Has a Moon
Late yesterday, NASA turned the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California towards Asteroid 1998 QE2 as it…
12 years ago
NASA’s KaBOOM Experimental Asteroid Radar Aims to Thwart Earth’s Kaboom
Over the past month, about a half dozen rather large asteroids have careened nearby our home planet and in one…
12 years ago
Asteroid Toutatis Tumbles in New Video from NASA
NASA has compiled the radar images taken of Asteroid Toutatis during its flyby of Earth this week to create a…
12 years ago