asteroids
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The April Fools Day Asteroid Is No Joke
Be happy. You have survived another close call with asteroid destruction: the April Fools Day asteroid — technically called 2012 EG5 — passed today at half the distance between the Earth and the moon: 230,000km.
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Earth Has A Second Moon, Astronomers Say
In a research paper called “The population of natural Earth satellites”, astronomers say that Earth must have a second moon at any given time. They have calculated the population of “irregular natural satellites that are temporarily captured” by Earth.
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This Asteroid Is Getting Way Too Close To Earth
This pixelated grayscale image was taken by the Arecibo Planetary Radar Facility in Puerto Rico on April 2010. It shows an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier on direct interception course with Earth’s orbit.
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Chinese Scientists Want To Lasso An Asteroid
Everybody knows the best method of dealing with dangerous asteroids — it’s called Bruce Willis. But what if said asteroid wasn’t on a collision course with us and we wanted to study, rather than explode, it? A team of Chinese researchers may have the solution.