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Once-A-Decade Event As 2.6 Miles-Wide Asteroid Hurtles Past Earth — How To See It

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

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Rare asteroid wider than Manhattan will make a close approach to Earth

Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the Earth — and there’s a chance you can see it for yourself.

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Asteroid larger than Manhattan to fly by Earth

The asteroid is so large it should be viewable with ordinary binoculars. The post Asteroid larger than Manhattan to fly by Earth appeared first on Talker.

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Asteroid Alinda makes closest Earth pass in a century

In the coming days, we can observe one of the most spectacular astronomical events. Asteroid 887 Alinda, with a diameter of about 2.6 miles, will be the closest asteroid to Earth in 100 years. In many places around the world,

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How to Watch a Once-in-160,000-Year Comet Predicted to Shine Brighter Than Venus

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to whiz past the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to ...

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Comet that could shine as bright as Venus set to be visible from Earth

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

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Asteroid-comet hybrid stuns scientists: ‘Like nothing we’ve seen before’

Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

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NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

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Could an Asteroid Cracked the Moon in Half?

"See To Believe uncovers the forgotten, mind-blowing facts that will leave you questioning everything. Follow wild stories of ...

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Asteroid, Comet…or Something Else? Mysterious Activity on “Oddball” Space Object Raises New Questions

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

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Scientists left baffled after discovering asteroid-comet hybrid that's like nothing ever seen before

Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.

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Asteroid so big 'you can see it with binoculars' to skim past Earth

The space rock - named (887) Alinda - is so large it should be viewable with ordinary binoculars. With an estimated diameter ...

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Scientists stunned by unique asteroid-comet hybrid discovery that’s like nothing seen before

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid ...

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Watch the skies as huge asteroid approaching Earth visible this week

Asteroid 887 Alinda has been classed as a Near Earth Asteroid and will be visible with the naked eye from this weekend ...

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