An asteroid will just miss us in 2029: Scientists are making the most of a rare opportunity
To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.
Astronomy
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News tagged with asteroid strike
'Trickle of food' helped deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs
A team led by experts at Cardiff University has provided new evidence to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago.
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2016
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Plastic rocks, plutonium, and chicken bones: The markers we're laying down in deep time
Rocks keep time. Not on our human-scale time, but deep time: the almost unimaginable span of billions of years which have already come and gone.
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2023
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Researchers say a comet killed the dinosaurs
In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appear to have survived. Most ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2013
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Asteroid expert says surveillance is key to survival, planning is key to defense
(Phys.org) —For the threat of meteor strikes large or small, early detection is key, and evacuation may be the only defense needed within the next 1,000 years, according to an asteroid impact expert.
Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2013
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China is building an asteroid deflection mission of its own, due for launch in 2025
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of course, is that unlike our reptilian ancestors, we humans might be able to save ourselves from an impending ...
Space Exploration
May 2, 2022
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If you're trying to prevent an asteroid impact, the technical and political challenges are staggering
While preparing for the threat of an asteroid strike might seem like a hypothetical exercise, it's really not. The solar system has calmed down a lot from earlier times when impacts were more frequent. But it is only a matter ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 22, 2023
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Image: Manicouagan Crater, Canada
This false-colour image featuring the Manicouagan Crater was captured by the Sentinel-1A satellite on 21 March.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2015
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Russia mulls beacons and the bomb to thwart asteroids
Russian officials on Tuesday proposed ideas ranging from planting beacon transmitters on asteroids to megaton-sized nuclear strikes to avert the threat from meteor collisions with the Earth.
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2013
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Does this dinosaur 'graveyard' reveal their final day on Earth? An expert explores the evidence
Buried in the rocks in North Dakota lies evidence of the exact day the dinosaurs were obliterated from the planet, some 66 million years ago. That's the claim of paleontologist Robert DePalma and colleagues, whose work was ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 28, 2022
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