Situation is significant enough to warrant global planetary defence community's attention. Astronomers plan to use James Webb Space Telescope to get precise estimate of asteroid's size.
Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main asteroid belt of the solar system.
Asteroid 2024 PT5 entered Earth orbit Monday & will exit the planet’s gravity on 25 November. It will travel in a horseshoe-shaped orbit & require powerful telescopes to be seen.
Geminids are one of the very few exceptions where source of dust is an asteroid and not a comet. This meteor shower originates from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon.
After touchdown, the capsule laid nose-down on the sandy floor of the Utah desert, a red-and-white parachute that slowed its high-speed descent resting just feet away after detaching.
Success of the mission would make it the third asteroid sample, and by far the biggest, to ever return to Earth for analysis, following two similar missions by Japan's space agency.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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