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Wednesday, Jun 4, 2025
Soorya, whose family hails from Nileswaram in Kasaragod, has discovered two asteroids—2023VB20 and 2023WT48—as part of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC), a NASA-affiliated programme.
NASA's first sample from the asteroid Bennu was parachuted into the Utah desert on Sunday.
Asteroid 2023 DZ2 would be visible with a decent set of binoculars or small telescopes.
For every potentially damaging asteroid spotted, there are millions falling towards the Earth unseen.
NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday.
A livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped 'impactor' vehicle, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium.
A car-sized asteroid flew past our planet over the last weekend, in the closest flyby of such space rocks on record. Scientists hardly had any information about it until it departed.
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