Earth, Asteroid and Christmas Eve

'Christmas Eve Asteroid' Would Flatten 700 Miles if It Impacted, Will Slip Past Earth on Dec 24
Outer space is sending Earth some early Christmas presents, but it may be just as well that at least one of them is way too far away to be opened. NASA lists five asteroids as approaching Earth’s corner of the solar system in the coming days.
Huge Asteroid Set To ‘Skim’ Earth At 14,743 MPH On Christmas Eve
NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December 24th at a speed of 14,743 miles
Asteroid alert for Christmas Eve: 120-foot asteroid to zoom past Earth at alarming speed, confirms NASA
Astronomers are gearing up for a celestial visitor this Christmas Eve. Asteroid 2024 XN1, a 120-foot space rock, is set to make its closest approach to Earth on December 24, 2024. Though it will come relatively close in astronomical terms,
Nasa on alert as airplane-sized 120-foot asteroid to approach Earth on Christmas eve
Five asteroids are approaching Earth in the coming days, with the largest, the airplane-sized 2024 XN1, passing by on December 24th at a safe distance of over 4.4 million miles. Several smaller asteroids will also make closer passes before then,
An airplane-sized asteroid to fly by earth on christmas eve: Here's all about it
An airplane-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles. NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks such near-Earth objects. Recently, a smaller asteroid created a fireball over Yakutia,
Lab work digs into gullies seen on giant asteroid Vesta by NASA's Dawn
Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...
An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years
The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...
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Scientists Discover Earth Life inside an Asteroid Sample
Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...
Will NASA's Mission to $10 Quintillion Psyche Asteroid Make Us All Rich?
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
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Tiny asteroid detected hours before hitting Earth to become 4th 'imminent impactor' of 2024
The asteroid, which has the temporary designation C0WEPC5, has now become the 4th "imminent impactor" discovered in 2024, ...
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Asteroid the size of 3 million elephants zooms past Earth
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Asteroids pass by each day. Luckily, large asteroid crashes are uncommon.
The likelihood of the "God of Destruction" asteroid Apophis striking Earth in 2029 is more than 1 in 2 billion, according ...
NASA Tracking Football Field-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow
WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...
The world's largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.
Asteroid on 'collision course' with Earth burns up above Russia
The asteroid impacted Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday and created a fireball over eastern Russia, according to NASA.
Uncovering a centaur's tracks: Scientists examine unique asteroid-comet hybrid
Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...