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 ...
An asteroid discovered Tuesday (April 9) made an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth ... three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon. 2024 GJ2 measures between ...
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 ...
Astronomers have warned about a large space rock called 2013 NK4 which will pass near ... diameter asteroid will be passing at a distance equal to 8 times that of between Earth and Moon.
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.
It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit ... distance between the Earth and the moon.
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.
the Earth-Moon gravity field, to actually get into this kind of orbit," Malhotra said. "It can't be too small, and it can't be too big. So there's a Goldilocks size range. It also has to be young ...