Asteroids and meteoroids often pass around Earth following the interaction with the gravitational influence of ... by Earth today. The Asteroid 2024 EN belongs to the Apollo group of Near-Earth ...

This asteroid, which is about 0.6 miles/1 kilometer in diameter), is an Apollo-type asteroid whose orbit crosses the orbit of Earth. Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1. 17 Jan.

NASA says Asteroid 2024 EF belongs to the Apollo group of Near-Earth Asteroids, which are Earth-crossing space rocks with semi-major axes larger than Earth's. These asteroids are named after the ...

Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024. This close approach provided astronomers with a valuable opportunity ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck ... the first time since the Apollo landings of the 1970s.

That’s 19.5 times the distance to the Moon. What kind of asteroid is 2023 DZ2? “Dizzy” is an Apollo-class asteroid, which means its orbit crosses the path of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

The asteroid's reflectance spectrum matches the characteristics of lunar rocks collected during the Luna 24, Apollo 14, and Apollo 17 missions. Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, co-author of the study ...

This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand canyons ... NASA’s Artemis program, ...