The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the orbits of Venus and Mercury. The asteroid is slated to safely pass by earth at 10:51 a.m ...
An asteroid discovered Tuesday (April 9) made an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth ... three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon. 2024 GJ2 measures between ...
An asteroid is expected to come extremely ... equivalent to only 4 percent of the distance between the Earth and the moon, which is about 238,900 miles away. 2024 GJ2 is thought to be between ...
Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid ... orbit as Earth’s. Previous research suggested that Kamo’oalewa may have originated from the Moon ...
It is described by Space.com as Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' and scientists say it was likely thrown into space an asteroid impact on the Moon between 1 million and 10 million years ago.
A large asteroid ... Earth. That's about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. The moon, by the way, is about 239,000 miles (384,400 kilometers) from Earth.While several small asteroids ...
A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning ... The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the orbits of Venus and ...