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Jupiter is a Gas Giant, So How Can Asteroids Not Pass Through It? This Is Quite Surprising

I remember watching a documentary that described Jupiter as a gas giant. The image that came to my mind was a huge, soft ...
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Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say

If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Asteroid-Deflecting Missions May Need to Hit Asteroids in the Perfect Spots to Prevent Future Collisions

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we hit a rocky body is important ...
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Hit the wrong spot and an asteroid returns on a collision course

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a ...

A massive 100-foot asteroid is approaching Earth at high speed today, NASA confirms

Asteroid 2025 QV9 is roughly 100 feet wide. It travels at 10,319 miles per hour. Its closest approach will be 1,250,000 miles ...