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Near-earth asteroid might be lost fragment of moon: Study
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], November 11 (ANI): According to a new paper by a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon.
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School-bus-size asteroid to safely zoom past Earth
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighbourhood on Thursday, September 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometres) above our planet's surface.
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Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth - the closest flyby on record
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 19 (ANI): Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometres) above the southern Indian Ocean
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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.
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Bus-size asteroid will zip safely by Earth today
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. (USA), Mar. 2 (ANI): We can have a chance to witness a newfound near-Earth asteroid, called 2018 DV1, on Friday!
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