asteroids
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The Hottest Known Temperature On Earth Was Caused By An Ancient Asteroid Strike
Around 36 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. New research suggests that, for a brief time, the temperature at the point of impact exceeded 2370C, making it the hottest temperature known to have occurred on Earth.
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Scientists Just Discovered The Oldest Asteroid Family Ever
Artist’s depiction of asteroids in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter. (Image: NASA) For billions of years, the Solar System’s asteroids have been involved in an endless game of bumper cars, smashing into each other and splintering into smaller bits. But get this — astronomers have just detected a clump of asteroids that has…
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NASA Is Moving Ahead With An Ambitious Plan To Deflect An Asteroid
A mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique just got a NASA promotion to the design phase. Called DART, the plan would see a refrigerator-sized spacecraft smash into a non-threatening asteroid, causing it to move ever so slightly from its original orbital path. The project is seen as an important first step in developing a…
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Here Are The Ways Large Asteroids Can Kill You, Ranked
Large asteroids definitely present one of the most colourful and chaotic possible apocalypses. Such an impact would cause quite a cinematic conclusion, combining a plague of wind, tsunamis, heat and other terrors into a horrible death-fest. Honestly, count me in.