Asteroids
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NASA simulate asteroid hitting New York City
According to Business Insider, "NASA ran a terrifying simulation to see how it would prevent an asteroid from hitting the planet. Participants managed to deflect it, but knocked a chunk off that headed towards New York". The
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Asteroid to fly close to Earth on March 5
An asteroid is set to skim past Earth on March 5, Nasa has predicted. Two years ago, the same asteroid buzzed by earth at around 2.3 million miles away - but this time it will be much closer. See also: Asteroid the size of the Royal Albert
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'Skull' asteroid to fly past Earth on Halloween (picture)
A huge asteroid resembling a skull will pass planet Earth on Halloween, NASA astronomers have said. 2015 TB145 was discovered by scientists earlier in October and will be the closest flyby of its kind until 2027. It will fly past Earth at around
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Asteroid on its way to Earth for Halloween
A huge asteroid is travelling towards Earth at 22 miles per second - and is due to miss the Earth by just 300,000 miles on Halloween (October 31), say scientists. By astronomical standards, that is frightfully close. But scientists say there is
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Asteroid the size of a double decker bus hurtles past Earth
An asteroid around the size of a double decker bus has passed by closer to Earth than the orbit of the moon. Although there are international teams of scientists and researchers constantly monitoring the sky for asteroid activity, astronomers
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Mini asteroid to narrowly miss earth on February 15
A mini asteroid will miss Earth by just 15,000 miles on February 15 and, although that sounds like a huge distance away, it's the closest approach since sky surveys began in the 1990s. The Mirror reports that the meteor, which is around
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Phew! Earth won't be hit by an asteroid in 28 years time
PA Experts have said that an asteroid as wide as two football pitches believed to be on a collision course with earth no longer poses a significant threat. Sky News reports that experts had previously believed that there was up to a one in 500
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