A massive object, thought to be a 55 foot wide and 10,000 ton asteroid, exploded with the force of 500 kilotons of TNT over the central Russian city of Chelyabinsk on February 15th 2013. The explosion was about 30 times …
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Traveling at roughly 17,640mph, Asteroid 2012 DA14 came within 17,200 miles of the Earth on February 15th, 2013. Estimated at 150 feet long and weighing 143,000 tons, DA14 would cause massive damage if it had struck the Earth, but not …
YIKES! Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass closer to the Earth than the orbit of the Moon on November 8th, 2011. At over 1300 feet in length, this one would cause some serious damage if it struck the Earth. This is …
In early May, 2010, Object 2010 KQ was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The object approached Earth from deep space, coming in almost to the distance of the Moon’s orbit, and is now headed away again. Using …
Being called a mystery object, astronomers have found something that looks like a comet, but lives in the asteroid belt about 250 million miles from Earth. The strange object was discovered on January 6 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research …