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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 ...
Science Daily

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 gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...

Airplane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth, NASA Reports

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according ...

NASA just got a look at an asteroid spanning over two football fields wide

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...
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Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says

NEW YORK -- An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift ...

Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth, NASA Reports

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...