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Object heading toward earth, scientists think it's 1960s space junk

Scientists are tracking an object heading toward earth that could enter the planet’s orbit, and they are not entirely sure what it is. The object, named Asteroid 2020 SO, is believed to be man ...
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Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket from failed moon-landing mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The jig may be up for an "asteroid" that's expected to get nabbed by Earth's gravity and become a mini moon next month. Instead of a cosmic rock, the newly discovered object ...
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid wider than two football fields set to fly past Earth next week

NEW YORK - An asteroid wider than two professional football fields is set to fly safely past Earth on Sept. 14, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The space rock, known as ...
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How a tiny nudge from NASA’s DART spacecraft showed we can actually save Earth from a killer asteroid

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour ...