Asteroid swarm with 11 new discoveries
Several Asteroids were recently discovered. Again, the whole world sleeps.
Several Asteroids were recently discovered. Again, the whole world sleeps.
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | February 8, 2019 07:21am ET Astronomers have just found an asteroid that zips around the sun every 165 Earth days. That’s the shortest year for any asteroid known to humankind, discovery team members said. And the space rock, called 2019 AQ3, could be part of a vast and virtually unknown population zooming through the inner solar system, quite
By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | August 8, 2018 05:27pm ET Since there aren’t any images of the Greenland fireball, here’s an illustration of a space rock burning up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock A fireball that streaked across the sky above the Thule Air Base in Greenland on July 25 was notable for not only the 2.1