Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9 小时
Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s ...
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
Will NASA's Mission to $10 Quintillion Psyche Asteroid Make Us All Rich?
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
What is Nasa planning to do with asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000?
It has been just over a year since Nasa sent a spacecraft after a $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid. That’s 10 quintillion ...
Space.com1 个月
Mysterious features on asteroid Vesta may be explained by saltwater
Vesta, the second biggest member of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... should have long escaped into space. Yet, close-up images of the asteroid, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...
Weather Words: Asteroid
Last week, an asteroid measuring 3 feet in diameter burned up off the California coast just hours after being detected.
Earth Bids Goodbye To Its 'Mini Moon' After Months-Long Stay
Earth has bid goodbye to its guest -- an asteroid that has been dubbed as a 'mini moon', after a two-month long stay.
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
You only have a few days left to see the Earth’s ‘second moon’
Well, according to NASA, 4.43pm next Monday to be exact The mini-moon is only 3,760,000km from Earth. That certainly might ...
Forbes3 个月
There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’
massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...