City-killer asteroid may be hurtling towards Earth right NOW…& we have no way to detect it, space agency chiefs warn
A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...
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Killer asteroid may be blasting towards Earth right now but we have no way to detect it
An asteroid scorched through the atmosphere in 2013 and hit Earth, but boffins knew nothing about it because they couldn't ...
Mystery as unidentified flying object lights up sky over Kyiv
The night sky over Kyiv was lit up by what some have speculated may have been a comet or meteor - shortly before Russia launched yet another series of drone strikes. With no official confirmation ...
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An Asteroid Won’t Destroy Life on Earth in 2032, but It Will Eventually
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...
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Odds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth just went up again, reaching new high
A similar-sized asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere in February 2013 when the early morning sky was set ablaze in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The space rock was estimated to be 17 metres in diameter ...
Putin threatens to treat Ukrainian POWs as 'terrorists' as he visits warzone
Vladimir Putin has suggested he may treat captured Ukrainian prisoners as 'terrorists' in a move which would likely breach ...
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Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of ...
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Astronomers watching 'city-killer' asteroid to determine chance of striking Earth in 2032
Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and ...
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How "asteroid detectives" are protecting Earth from potentially dangerous impacts: "Find them before they find you"
However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. An asteroid big enough to wipe ...
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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
The most significant impact of this century occurred over Russia in 2013, when an asteroid the size of a small building disintegrated about 12.4 miles above the city of Chelyabinsk, leaving behind ...