An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth ... between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter — new research has revealed that Kamo’oalewa most likely came from the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon ...
A near-Earth asteroid has ... Giordano Bruno crater on the moon's far side. A new study suggests the asteroid is unlike other relatively close asteroids, which are thought to hail from the main ...
A car-sized asteroid, 2024 GJ2, made a close but harmless pass by Earth at a distance of 12,000 miles. Astronomers believe it would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere if its orbit intersected ...
The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the orbits of Venus and Mercury. The asteroid is slated to safely pass by earth at 10:51 a.m ...
To everyone's relief, the 9.4-foot space rock, although came very close to Earth, made a harmless pass by the planet. The newly-discovered asteroid 2024 GJ2 is ... just three per cent of the distance ...
An asteroid is expected to come extremely ... equivalent to only 4 percent of the distance between the Earth and the moon, which is about 238,900 miles away. 2024 GJ2 is thought to be between ...
Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar ... of rocks ejected from the moon that might meet the special conditions needed to reach an orbit like Kamo'oalewa's.
The crater is on the far side of the moon, the part of the moon Earth never sees. 2016 HO3 is considered a near-Earth asteroid with an elliptical orbit around the Earth. It is estimated to be about ...
It is described by Space.com as Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' and scientists say it was likely thrown into space an asteroid impact on the Moon between 1 million and 10 million years ago.