The Earth’s gravity will release its hold on mini-moon 2020 SO sometime in March 2021 — it will head toward the sun. On February 1 and 2, the “second” moon will make one more close approach to Earth, and there is an opportunity for the public to watch, thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project in […]
NASA has steadily been watching the Halloween asteroid, 2015 TB145, from the Deep Space Network in Goldstone, California. On Oct. 31, at 1:05 p.m. EDT, the 1,300 foot-wide asteroid will pass the Earth. Paul Chodas, the manager of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies in Pasadena, California, says the luminous body will be traveling […]
An asteroid weighing 90 million tons will miss the Earth in July 2015, and will merely pass by on Sunday, July 19, at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time/6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The asteroid will be one of the nearest reported space rocks to have crossed the path of planet Earth, and will get 30 times closer […]
