Listen to Ep.436 #Asteroids are flying close by #earth by SunKing-Sports #np on #SoundCloud

Two small #asteroids, recently discovered by astronomers, the skyline survey of the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), funded by #NASA, will pass the #Earth at a distance of less than one #Earth-Moon distance (384,000 kilometers) this week.

Solar System Likely Has Tons of Insterstellar #Asteroids - Matt Williams, U-Today
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#Asteroids #Scientists – ‘Killer Asteroids’ Hidden In Annual Taurid Meteor Shower? Scientists Have Detected Two, Fear More : After finding two massive asteroids with the potential to do extensive damage to the Earth in a previously undiscovered branch of…

#NASA #Asteroids – NASA predicts 5 asteroids to fly close to Earth this year : The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) continues to be Earth’s “safety net” against threats from beyond outer space. Through its famed asteroid detection site,…

[#Asteroids are] “the vermin of the sky.” — Walter Baade, German-American astronomer, who was born on 24 Mar 1893. (The reason is asteroids clutter star photographs and can obscure other objects of interest.) More #quotes https://todayinsci.com/B/Baade_Walter/BaadeWalter-Quotations.htm More quotes on #asteroid https://todayinsci.com/QuotationsCategories/A_Cat/Asteroid-Quotations.htm