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According to NASA, the asteroid material was expected to be found outside the scientific container.
After two years of surveying the asteroid, the mission team chose a spot it named Nightingale, near the asteroid’s north pole.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/science/nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-landing.html
Although the asteroid also had an impact, it is clear that the extinction event would have occurred even without it.
Although the asteroid hit in one day, geologically speaking, current is happening in the blink of an eye as well.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-qa-asteroid-dinosaurs-mammals-dominate.html
A meteoroid results when a chunk of rock breaks off from a larger asteroid (usually a result of impact) and burns up on its way into the Earth's atmosphere.
Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-asteroids-we-should-watch-out-for
Analyzing zinc isotopes in moon rocks will help us to test this hypothesis and determine whether the colliding asteroid played an important part in delivering volatiles, including water, to the Earth.”
Source: https://www.mutiny.in/researchers-reveal-completely-unexpected-findings/
An international team led by Associate Professor Yasuhiro Oba at Hokkaido University has been studying the samples from asteroid since the samples were returned.
Source: https://hothardware.com/news/scientists-make-discovery-of-rna-molecules-in-asteroid-dust-sample
A once-in-a-decade asteroid will be whizzing past the Earth this weekend.
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/asteroid-2023-dz2-science/
"'Armageddon' is set in today's world but presents a much less believable story and a totally unrealistic picture of the oncoming celestial body" — an asteroid in the case of "Armageddon."
Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/05/06/deep-impact-25-year-retrospective-science/
“Ask the people what they want to do with the asteroid.”
Source: https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/existential-risk-human-apathy.html?via=rss
Astronomers say the asteroid was a "fortunate side effect" of the galaxy-photographing project, which uses the breaks in between the telescope's longer observations to look at those nearby galaxies that haven't been studied yet.
Source: https://mashable.com/article/hubble-galaxy-asteroid-photobomb-space
At some point, statistically speaking, a large asteroid will impact Earth.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-hera-asteroid-mission-trial.html
Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid — a class of asteroids that contain a high amount of carbon.
Source: https://www.rawstory.com/birds-nests-express-their-unique-style-and-past-experiences/
By changing the year to 2061 and scanning the Caliban asteroid, players will learn that the accident in question claimed the lives of miners, which Londra saw as the price of progress.
Source: https://gamerant.com/horizon-forbidden-west-burning-shores-heaven-and-earth-door-code/
By observing an eclipse of a much dimmer star by Leona in September, a Spanish-led team recently estimated the asteroid to be about 34 miles wide and 50 miles long (55 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers long).
Source: https://abc7.com/asteroid-eclipse-star-when/14154439/
DART successfully moved its target asteroid, demonstrating a potential solution in defending Earth.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/chelyabinsk-meteor-russia-photos-video-10-years-later-1850117534
Despite the problems with Brokkr-1, the company is pressing ahead with a second spacecraft that will perform a flyby of a near Earth asteroid and take high-resolution images of it.
Source: https://spacenews.com/house-committee-debates-space-mining/
For comparison, the asteroid is about the size of an Olympic swimming pool, and would make an almighty splash if it landed in one.
He also has a suitably flamboyant scheme -- recreating the mass extinction of the dinosaurs by dropping a self-made asteroid on the planet -- and his ability to keep his consciousness alive through his army of drones makes him considerably hard to kill.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/ant-man-wasp-quantumania-kang-ultron-issue-mcu/
Hera mission to re-visit the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos is set to blast off in October.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/2024-space-rocket-launches-nasa-spacex-boeing-moon-1851070749