The asteroid colliding with the Moon could release energy in upwards of 340 Hiroshima bombs with the spectacle very likely to ...
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Then they "studied how the sunlight reflected off the small rock" and found it "didn't match that of any known asteroid ...
Only 2% of this region, at most, intersects the Earth, which is the small dot at the center of the Moon's orbit. / Credit: NASA "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand ...
MORE: There's a small chance an asteroid could hit Earth ... What to know about 'mini-moon' The asteroid measures between 130 feet and 330 feet in diameter and large enough to potentially ...
An asteroid ... moon — and astronomers have so far set the probability of a crash at around 2%. International space organizations like NASA are taking the possible threat seriously, however ...
Astronomers say a newly discovered 196-foot asteroid has a 1-in-43 chance of ... a pass near earth in 2028 at about 20 times the Earth-Moon distance, according to NASA, so there’s no chance ...