We may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our orbit. Asteroid hunters have ...
The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the ... called doomsday asteroid" set to pass closer than Earth’s artificial satellites ...
An asteroid discovered Tuesday (April 9) made an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet ... distance — that's just three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon.
It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit ... distance between the Earth and the moon.
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 ...