Asteroid
Asteroid This page is about the astronomical body Asteroid. For the arcade game, see Asteroids. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet ... of the asteroids are within the main asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between those ...
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Asteroid deflection strategies
Asteroid deflection strategies Artist's impression of a ... event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few km in diameter releases as ... energy as several million nuclear bombs simulatenously. Asteroid deflection strategies are methods by which near ... beyond the physical destruction caused by the impacts themselves. A nation hit by less than ... that you will be killed by an asteroid or by an airplane crash. While ...
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Near-Earth asteroid
Near-Earth asteroid Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose ... the Moon. The most famous near-Earth asteroid is 433 Eros that was visited by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe. A few hundred such near ... be true asteroids, driven out of the asteroid belt by gravitational interactions with Jupiter. There ... close. Also sometimes used is the Arjuna asteroid classification for asteroids with extremely Earth- ...
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Talk:Asteroid deflection strategies
Talk:Asteroid deflection strategies The anti-nuclear tilt is ... the Sun. Send an expedition to the Asteroid belt, and tow some of them back ... to be a disambigous page for the asteroid named Apophis that will graze planet Earth ... it more inexpensive to get the anti-asteroid weapons and fuel to escape earth orbit ... perhaps need to add some Significant historical impacts when, sequenced not chronologically but from ...
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M-type asteroid
M-type asteroid M-type asteroids are metallic asteroids; they ... early history of the Solar system by impacts, and originate in the inner portion of the asteroid belt. This type is the third-most abundant in the asteroid belt, and is thought to be the ... 16 Psyche is the largest M-type asteroid. 21 Lutetia will be the first ...
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Talk:Meanings of asteroid names
Talk:Meanings of asteroid names Discrepancies between Schmadel and IPA In ... in AMOS support for the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program. (48778) Shokoyukako = 1997 RE Discovered ... 1997 Jan. 13 by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project on Haleakala. Andrew Alday ... planet programs, including JPL's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program. (93061) Barbagallo = 2000 SX20 Discovered ... course of the U.K.\ Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey. The 3-meter NASA Infrared ...
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Talk:99942 Apophis
... impact will eventually be eliminated as the asteroid continues to be tracked by astronomers around ... same with NASA. If NASA expects the asteroid to hit us with probability 2.4 ... try. Consider the event E that the asteroid will hit us, and the event F ... Armageddon. So get me this straight...this asteroid is seen as the biggest threat from ... missing. But writing the number in an asteroid name as a subscript doesn't ...
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Impact event
... event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few kilometers in diameter may release ... mass extinctions of life. For discussion of impacts in general, not just on Earth, see ... on the planet. A few of these impacts may have caused massive climate change and ... of an Earth impact. Large-scale terrestrial impacts of the sort that produced the Barringer ... yield of 50 megatons. Mass extinctions and impacts In the past 600 million years ...
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99942 Apophis
... 2004 MN 4 ) is a Near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern ... 13, 2036, is still possible, keeping the asteroid at level 1 on the Torino impact ... February 2005 it is predicted that the asteroid will pass about 36,350 km (22 ... hour. Such a close approach by an asteroid of this size is expected to occur ... of the NASA-funded University of Hawaii Asteroid Survey from Kitt Peak National Observatory ...
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List of astronomical topics
... New Theory of Magnetic Storms A-type asteroid Aaronson, Marc Abdulmelik, Chalid Ben Abell, George ... making American Astronomical Society American Nebula Amor asteroid Amort, Eusebius Analemma Ananke (moon) Ananke group ... Apogee Apollo Apollo 11 Apollo 17 Apollo asteroid Apollo program Apparent Visual Magnitude Apparent magnitude ... Svante Artemova, Ioulia Vladimirovna Aryabhata Asterism (astronomy) Asteroid Asteroid belt Asteroid deflection strategies Asteroid moon ...
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