Tag Asteroids - results: 76

A mysterious stranger Omului may be a cosmic iceberg

A mysterious stranger Omului may be a cosmic iceberg

looks like Omului – the mysterious visitor from other star systems. Since in 2017 opened the asteroid Omwamwi first interstellar object discovered in the Solar system, it is the cause of endless controversy among astronomers. The ...

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2020-06-25

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People produce more carbon dioxide than all the volcanoes on the planet

People produce more carbon dioxide than all the volcanoes on the planet

Scientists believe that volcanic activity can cause, and in the past has led to the extinction of various animal species. The results of recent studies indicate that in the Triassic period, preceding the Jurassic, to the blows of ...

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2020-05-03

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A giant asteroid will fly close to Earth in April

A giant asteroid will fly close to Earth in April

a Large and potentially hazardous asteroid ready to fly past Earth in the next month. Despite the associated concerns, space visitor does not bear any danger for the inhabitants of our planet, but rather may even help modern scien...

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2020-03-26

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Artificial intelligence has discovered 11 potentially hazardous to Earth asteroids

Artificial intelligence has discovered 11 potentially hazardous to Earth asteroids

the Solar system and its nearest neighbors, literally filled with asteroids. Most of these objects are never cross with us, but some of them actually represent, or will represent a threat to our planet in the future. So, 65 millio...

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2020-02-27

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With the Sun and Venus first discovered asteroid

With the Sun and Venus first discovered asteroid

this image shows the orbits of the planets and the new asteroid 2020 AV2 Astronomers have discovered about 1 million in our Solar system, the vast majority of them are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Much less aster...

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2020-01-23

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And yet the dinosaurs became extinct because of the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, scientists have found

And yet the dinosaurs became extinct because of the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, scientists have found

One mystery less — the dinosaurs became extinct because of the asteroid Perhaps, for anybody not a secret that in the scientific community, the debate continues about what caused the death of the dinosaurs 65 million years a...

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2020-01-18

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What is known about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?

What is known about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?

asteroid Impact was the cause of the chain of dramatic events Despite the extreme weather situation in which the world today, we are incredibly lucky to live in XXI century and not in the era of the Cretaceous period. It was then,...

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2019-11-25

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Why destroy the asteroids more complex than we think?

Why destroy the asteroids more complex than we think?

it Turns out to blow up the asteroid is not as easy as we thought Despite the fact that many people really are afraid of falling on our planet of a giant that will destroy us like the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, the probabilit...

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2019-11-17

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Inside the meteorite was discovered unknown in nature, the mineral

Inside the meteorite was discovered unknown in nature, the mineral

it looks like the meteorite Wedderburn How much do you think falls on our planet in the year? According to experts, their number varies in the region of 5-6 tonnes per day, which is about 2 thousand tons per year. A lot, right? Ho...

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2019-09-05

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Asteroids can change its color

Asteroids can change its color

Some of the detected person asteroids have unique properties About 900 different sizes and shapes revolves at present around our Sun. Each of these stones is unique in its own way, but, nevertheless, the mankind is extremely lucky...

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2019-09-04

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When will the world end? Several recent forecasts

When will the world end? Several recent forecasts

Our end can be so colorful In the middle ages people lived not simply in , they were ready to die literally every day. The reasons were more than enough from the barbarians who would burn the village to epidemics and pagan omens. ...

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2019-09-03

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How common are mass extinctions?

How common are mass extinctions?

According to biologists our planet has survived five . The reality is that more than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. According to recent studies, the cycle length of 26 million years, linking...

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2019-08-14

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The impact of the asteroid created a tsunami destructive force on Mars

The impact of the asteroid created a tsunami destructive force on Mars

According to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, an international team of scientists from France, Spain and Australia have come to the conclusion that about three billion years ago was under the influence of a powerful c...

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2019-08-13

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Flies to the Earth a huge asteroid the size of a skyscraper

Flies to the Earth a huge asteroid the size of a skyscraper

According to the American space Agency NASA, at the end of this week, on Saturday August 10 with a speed of 16 772 kilometers per hour to our planet will approach a very large asteroid. Scientists say that the object having the na...

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2019-08-05

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Fall is this the fall of the asteroid on the Earth?

Fall is this the fall of the asteroid on the Earth?

Since June this year, the entire Internet is literally buzzing with the news that on the Ground this fall, may drop an asteroid the size of 20 to 50 meters. The fall of such a celestial body in the global scale, certainly will not...

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2019-07-19

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What is the probability that will fall to Earth asteroid?

What is the probability that will fall to Earth asteroid?

an Interesting question: how many falls to the Ground asteroid? If with a telescope to see the moon or a planet , it can be concluded that the surface of the asteroid fall quite often. They literally littered with hundreds of crat...

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2019-07-18

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The largest objects in the Universe

The largest objects in the Universe

the universe is huge. It is difficult for us to imagine her true size. Scientists say that since the Big Bang it expanded so much that she . We cannot see the entire Universe, but its those places that are open to our sight also c...

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2019-07-15

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Japanese spacecraft for the second time sat on the asteroid Ryugu

Japanese spacecraft for the second time sat on the asteroid Ryugu

In 2014, the Japanese space Agency JAXA launched into the sky with apparatus called "Hayabusa-2". He was sent to the so-called asteroid Ryugu, examining the surface of which scientists want to know how life appeared on Earth. The ...

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2019-07-12

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The apparatus of the OSIRIS-REx approached the asteroid Bennu at a record close distance

The apparatus of the OSIRIS-REx approached the asteroid Bennu at a record close distance

the Space Agency NASA is interested the study of near-earth asteroid Bennu for two reasons. First, it is potentially dangerous for our planet the object, and secondly, samples of soil can reveal the mysteries of the origin of the ...

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2019-06-23

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Ultima Thule may be a

Ultima Thule may be a "world-Frankenstein"

the Ultima Thule can be written as the sum of its parts. A new analysis suggests that this tiny space rock was formed from a spinning cloud of smaller rocks, which eventually formed two separate objects. These objects are then ge...

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2019-04-15

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