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NASA Reports Plane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...
Astrum on MSN5h
When Jupiter Bombarded Earth: The Asteroid Hurling Moment
Billions of years ago, a migrating Jupiter tore through the young solar system, flinging a barrage of asteroids towards the ...
A 95-foot, airplane-sized asteroid 2025 ME92 to fly past Earth at high speed on July 31
Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...
Insane Curiosity on MSN5h
The Post-Impact Timeline: How the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Shaped Earth
A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock waves, then a two-year “impact winter” from dust and sulfur aerosols—leading t ...
Remember the June fireball? Here's how scientists are classifying the meteorite that came crashing through a Georgia home
Planetary Geologist R. Scott Harris, working under the auspices of UGA, analyzed fragments of the meteorite with an electron ...
Space on MSN23h
When did our solar system's planets form? Discovery of tiny meteorite may challenge the timeline
Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...
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‘Hope to showcase wonders’: Aswin Sekhar on joining elite committee on meteor science
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. Meteor scientist Aswin Sekhar has joined the organising committee of the prestigious Commission ...