Large asteroid to fly between Earth and the moon
The asteroid will pass by Friday and Saturday on a track that scientists suggest is slightly less than half the average distance to the moon from Earth
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Smashing success: Nasa's Dart spacecraft 'changed path of asteroid'
A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
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Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams
A Nasa probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth has grabbed so much that samples are spilling out.
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Asteroid as tall as Burj Khalifa to skim past Earth on September 14
On September 14, an asteroid will pass by Earth that's larger than some of the tallest buildings on the planet.
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NASA is going to try to move an asteroid to practice defending our planet
Didymos is not on course to hit Earth, and is not a threat to humanity. Instead NASA and the ESA are using this asteroid to practice diverting an asteroid from its path in case a different asteroid does start heading towards Earth in the future.
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