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Trump’s Presidency Ends With an Asteroid Bigger Than the Empire State Building

Donald Trump is only a few days away from its replacement with Joe Biden for the presidential stool, and it seems like someone or something beyond our atmosphere may not be liking the news at all. An asteroid larger than…

January 18, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Near-Earth Asteroid Made Extremely Close Fly-by of Earth

Near-Earth asteroid 2020 OY4 was first detected by The Mount Lemmon Survey on July 26. The space rock approached our planet, reaching its minimum distance from us earlier today (July 28, 2020), at 5:31 UTC. It made an extremely close,…

July 28, 2020 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

Astronomers Have “Lost Track” Of More Than 900 Near-Earth Asteroids

Astronomers have “lost track” of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids, according to a new study. The lost space rocks are bodies of varied sizes, detected punctually at some point but whose trajectories could not be followed. Therefore, now researchers have…

May 18, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0