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TopicAsteroids

Topic: asteroids

Sample from speeding asteroid shows its made of stuff similar to that which formed the Sun

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Earth has a second ‘Trojan’ asteroid, will share its orbit for next 4,000 years

Sandhya Ramesh -
Trojans are asteroids that share orbit with a planet. The second Earth Trojan was detected in 2020 and has been named 2020 XL5. The first had been found a decade earlier, in 2010.

NASA launches DART mission to crash into asteroid, results could help defend Earth some day

Sandhya Ramesh -
The DART mission will crash a space probe into the asteroid Dimorphos to test human capability to protect the planet against near earth objects.

This quasi-satellite of Earth could actually be a piece of Moon, astronomers say

Sandhya Ramesh -
Quasi-satellites are asteroids that orbit the Sun with orbital period similar to that of the Earth’s. From Earth’s perspective, they appear to orbit the Earth instead.

Asteroid with shortest orbital period in solar system spotted & human DNA from 7,200 years ago

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Water vapour found in Ganymede’s atmosphere & the origin of the asteroid that killed dinosaurs

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Dinosaurs were already in decline before the asteroid wiped them out

Fabien Condamine -
Many palaeontologists believe that if the dinosaurs had survived, primates and therefore humans would never have appeared on Earth.

Earth-like planet discovered 26 light years away, with an atmosphere

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Why we’re never going to mine the asteroid belt

David Fickling -
People are shooting for the stars, but those who declined to fund the expansive plans of the nascent space mining industry were right about the fundamentals.

Celestial fireworks tonight as Geminids meteor shower set to peak

Sandhya Ramesh -
The meteor shower is intensifying every year, and is best viewed between 2 am and 3 am. 
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