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Here's Why June 30 Is Celebrated As World Asteroid Day
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.
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6 Dangerous Asteroids On Collision Course With Earth, First One May Hit In October
Asteroid Bennu, discovered in 1999, currently poses the greatest risk of impacting our planet.
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Asteroid, The Size Of A Skyscraper, To Pass By Earth Today
An asteroid designated as 2024 BR4 is set to make a breathtakingly close pass by Earth this Valentine's Day.
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NASA To Reveal First Images Of Largest Asteroid Sample Collected In Space
NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.
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World Asteroid Day 2020: Why Is It Observed And All You Need To Know
World Asteroid Day 2020: In December 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in order to "observe each year, at the international level, the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, on 30 June 1908, and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard."
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Fossils Show World-Wide Catastrophe On The Day Dinosaurs Died
Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into a shallow sea near Mexico. The impact carved out a 90-mile-wide crater and flung mountains of earth into space. Earthbound debris fell to the planet in droplets of molten rock and glass.
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Asteroid Collision With Earth Inevitable, Say Experts
An asteroid strike on Earth is just a matter of time and it could destroy major cities, experts have said. According to Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen's University Belfast in Britain, it is a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if it will happen.
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Congratulations To Us, We're More Destructive Than An Asteroid
We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction. Species are dying out faster than ever before.
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In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day
An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.
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Here's Why June 30 Is Celebrated As World Asteroid Day
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.
-
6 Dangerous Asteroids On Collision Course With Earth, First One May Hit In October
Asteroid Bennu, discovered in 1999, currently poses the greatest risk of impacting our planet.
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Asteroid, The Size Of A Skyscraper, To Pass By Earth Today
An asteroid designated as 2024 BR4 is set to make a breathtakingly close pass by Earth this Valentine's Day.
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NASA To Reveal First Images Of Largest Asteroid Sample Collected In Space
NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.
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World Asteroid Day 2020: Why Is It Observed And All You Need To Know
World Asteroid Day 2020: In December 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in order to "observe each year, at the international level, the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, on 30 June 1908, and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard."
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Fossils Show World-Wide Catastrophe On The Day Dinosaurs Died
Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into a shallow sea near Mexico. The impact carved out a 90-mile-wide crater and flung mountains of earth into space. Earthbound debris fell to the planet in droplets of molten rock and glass.
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Asteroid Collision With Earth Inevitable, Say Experts
An asteroid strike on Earth is just a matter of time and it could destroy major cities, experts have said. According to Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen's University Belfast in Britain, it is a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if it will happen.
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Congratulations To Us, We're More Destructive Than An Asteroid
We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction. Species are dying out faster than ever before.
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In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day
An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.
