asteroid
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NASA Wants an International Fleet of Spacecraft to Monitor Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid Apophis is scheduled for a brief rendezvous with Earth and NASA is hoping to get a good view of the close encounter in order to prepare for potentially hazardous visits by other rocky bodies.
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Contamination Prevention Is Key as NASA Preps for Incoming Asteroid Samples
In October 2020, engineers landed a spacecraft on an asteroid 200 million miles (320 million km) from Earth and collected a rocky sample from its surface. But that wasn’t even the hardest part. Now the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth to drop off that sample, with NASA rehearsing the smoothest way…
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NASA’s DART Asteroid-Smashing Mission Changed the Course of Planetary Defence
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid and altering its orbit, in a pioneering test of planetary defence.
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Webb Telescope Spots a Small Asteroid From 99 Million Kilometres Away
The roughly Colosseum-sized rock marks a new kind of target for Webb Space Telescope.