Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA)

NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches – NASA

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NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches – NASA

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently tracked two asteroids as they flew by our planet. One turned out to have a little moon orbiting it, while the … Read more

NASA Asteroid Experts Create Hypothetical Impact Scenario for Exercise – NASA

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NASA Asteroid Experts Create Hypothetical Impact Scenario for Exercise – NASA

The fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise focused on an asteroid impact scenario designed by NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. A large asteroid impacting Earth is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future. But because the damage from such an event could be great, NASA leads hypothetical asteroid impact “tabletop” exercises every two … Read more

NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Slowly Spinning Asteroid – NASA

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NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Slowly Spinning Asteroid – NASA

During the close approach of 2008 OS7 with Earth on Feb. 2, the agency’s Deep Space Network planetary radar gathered the first detailed images of the stadium-size asteroid. On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 ½ times the distance … Read more