Asteroids

A massive near-Earth asteroid is set to make its closest pass by our planet in roughly four centuries ... To resolve this, NASA plans to point its Goldstone Solar System Radar at the asteroid during its close approach.

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Asteroid vs Comet: Comparing their origins, structure and journey through space

The Times of India 17 Jun 2026

This process creates the bright features that distinguish active comets from asteroids.Orbit lengthMany asteroids follow comparatively stable paths around the Sun and complete their orbits within predictable periods.

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Experts baffled by surge of fireball meteors this year

The Journal Record 17 Jun 2026

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Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? How to identify and classify the rocks you see ...

Idaho Press-Tribune 16 Jun 2026

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LISA Could Double as an Asteroid Scale

Universe Today 15 Jun 2026

One of the hardest things to calculate for an asteroid is its mass - but it is such a critical feature.

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A Large Asteroid Is About To Make Its Closest Approach In Over 400 Years. It Won't Approach This Close Again Until June 28, 2133

IFL Science 15 Jun 2026

Visible light alone does not reveal an asteroid's size ... As well as being an opportunity to look at this specific asteroid, approaches by asteroids this size only take place around once every decade.

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An asteroid long thought to be a chunk of the Moon may be ordinary space ...

SpaceDaily 15 Jun 2026

For five years, the leading story about Kamoʻoalewa, a small asteroid that travels alongside Earth, was that it might be a stray piece of the Moon ... a fragment of a distant asteroid family, weathered until its surface only looks lunar.

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What is the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite? The kids’ quiz

The Observer 14 Jun 2026

what is the difference between asteroids and meteorites? “Asteroid” is an American term and “meteorite” is British ... There’s no such thing as an asteroid. Meteorites are debris that has come from the moon – asteroids come from everywhere else.

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Meet REMORA: The autonomous space fleet built to tag and track asteroids

Phys Dot Org 13 Jun 2026

To truly understand what an asteroid is made of, we need to send a probe to it ... The United Kingdom itself is in a bit of a weird place when it comes to asteroid science ... Autonomous fleet-based asteroid rendezvous missions, arXiv (2026).

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Mining’s next boom is off the map: Arctic ice, abyssal plains and asteroids

Mining 13 Jun 2026

Lunar and asteroid deposits are thought to contain nickel, iron and platinum group metals ... Its Vestri probe is designed to dock with a metallic near-earth asteroid, while a later mission would attempt extraction, refining and return.

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In September 2022 a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid 11 million kilometres ...

SpaceDaily 12 Jun 2026

On 26 September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft struck Dimorphos, a roughly 150-metre moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos, about 11 million kilometres from Earth.

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