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A crater still remains where a meteor struck Arizona 50,000 years ago. Jonathan Blair/Corbis. Numerous proposals have been made. The obvious one of blowing up the asteroid with H-bombs might be a ...
The damage caused by an asteroid impact depends on its size. But how big must a space rock be to cause an apocalypse? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
In the sci-fi comedy “Don’t Look Up”, humanity has just six months to avert the destruction of Earth by a 10-kilometer wide asteroid. Would we survive if we spotted a planet-kille… ...
Researchers discovered the asteroid responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago came from beyond Jupiter's orbit. Using ruthenium isotopes, they determined it was a C-type ...
I used meteor burst communications in the 80’s to transmit US Navy ship positions back to CINCLant via a master station located at Bermuda, for an exercise in the Carribean Op Area. We averaged ...
The asteroid, named 2022 AP7, managed to avoid detection for so long because it orbits in the region between Earth and Venus. ... Related: Asteroid apocalypse: ...
What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up. Plus a captivating new novel from decorated author Louise Erdrich.
Adam Driver sat down with NASA to talk about avoiding an asteroid apocalypse. The actor is launching a new film, called "65," where he plays a space pilot who crash-lands on Earth at the end of ...
For Chabot, DART’s biggest promise lies in being the first of many missions focused on averting a possible asteroid apocalypse. “It’s not just an end in itself,” she says.
A massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis - which translates to "God of chaos" and is larger than the Eiffel Tower - is set to make an "exceptionally close" pass by Earth in 2029.
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