Minor planets

“There are millions of asteroids in our solar system, of which around 2,350 asteroids have been classified as potentially hazardous”

For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appearance over Earth

Astronomers have discovered that a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid has an unusual accelerating spin that could eventually change its trajectory

The Colossal Untapped Value Of Asteroids

The comet is over 128.7 kilometers in diameter & has a mass of ~500 trillion tons. It won’t hit us but it will help us understand the Oort Cloud

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An asteroid known as Bennu will pass within half the distance of the Earth to the Moon in the year 2135 but the probability of an impact with our planet in the coming centuries is very slight, scientists said on Aug. 11.

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The asteroid is classified by NASA as a “potentially hazardous object”

With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on May 10, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.

The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years.

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge celestial object struck off the coast of what is now Mexico, triggering a catastrophic "impact winter" that eventually wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs.

A pair of astronomers at Harvard say they have now resolved long-standing mysteries surrounding the nature and origin of the "Chicxulub impactor."