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 […]
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At 11:19 a.m. on Jan. 26, an asteroid flying through space missed Earth – just barely. Although the space projectile was 750,000 miles away from Earth at its closest point, it was very close in astronomical terms. This seems laughable, because the distance between the asteroid and Earth was more than the distance from the Earth […]