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- How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/planetdefense.html 14 comments
- Newfound Asteroid May Strike Earth in 2046, NASA Says https://www.livescience.com/newly-discovered-asteroid-the-size-of-a-swimming-pool-has-a-1-in-600-chance-of-colliding-with-earth-nasa-says 47 comments
- Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10610491/Asteroid-half-size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html 3 comments
- Will That Asteroid Strike Earth? Risk Level Rises to Highest Ever Recorded https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/science/asteroid-2024-yr4-impact.html 2 comments
- NASA warns Earth is totally unprepared for a surprise asteroid strike http://www.sciencealert.com/earth-is-totally-unprepared-for-a-surprise-asteroid-strike-nasa-scientist-warns 10 comments space
- How to Defend the Earth Against an Asteroid Strike http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/planetdefense.html 8 comments space
- Apophis asteroid might be more likely to strike Earth in 2068 than thought https://phys.org/news/2020-11-apophis-asteroid-earth-thought.html 43 comments space
- Apophis asteroid might be more likely to strike Earth in 2068 than thought https://phys.org/news/2020-11-apophis-asteroid-earth-thought.html 1811 comments space
- Likelihood of an asteroid strike in 2032 and what the implications would be on earth http://qz.com/139875/what-it-would-be-like-if-this-quarter-mile-wide-asteroid-hit-the-earth-in-2032-and-you-survived-it/ 9 comments science
- Asteroid, named 'CAQTDL2', to strike Earth today at 17:08 UTC, without harm https://www.albawaba.com/node/asteroid-caqtdl2-strike-earth-today-1708-1584085 145 comments space
- The Hottest Known Temperature On Earth Was Caused By an Ancient Asteroid Strike http://gizmodo.com/the-hottest-known-temperature-on-earth-was-caused-by-an-1816209015 2 comments science
- Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10610491/Asteroid-half-size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline 103 comments worldnews
- Protecting planet Earth from impending asteroid strikes https://www.theengineer.co.uk/protecting-planet-large-meteor-strikes/ 3 comments space
- Asteroid Threat: Sizing Up Earth's Vulnerability to Space Rock Strikes http://news.yahoo.com/asteroid-threat-sizing-earths-vulnerability-space-rock-strikes-112749440.html 8 comments science
- NASA: BIG asteroid rushing towards Earth today; will it STRIKE? | Tech News https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/nasa-big-asteroid-rushing-towards-earth-today-will-it-strike-71649396547004.html 4 comments india
- Study finds twice as many asteroids striking Earth as dinosaur era https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/425962-study-finds-twice-as-many-asteroids-striking-earth-as-dinosaur 25 comments worldnews
- NASA Denies Asteroid To Strike Earth Next Month http://news.sky.com/story/1539107/nasa-denies-asteroid-to-strike-earth-next-month 13 comments worldnews
- Tom Horn Says an Asteroid Will Strike Earth in 2029, Unleashing an 'Alien Virus' That Will Give Rise to the Antichrist https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tom-horn-says-an-asteroid-will-strike-earth-in-2029-unleashing-an-alien-virus-that-will-give-rise-to-the-antichrist/ 33 comments politics
- Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10610491/Asteroid-half-size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline 3150 comments worldnews
- Small asteroid C0PPEV1 paid a heavy price for almost striking Earth yesterday https://earthsky.org/space/near-earth-asteroid-close-pass-oct-2019-c0ppev1 137 comments space
- Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says http://www.space.com/34070-earth-vulnerable-to-major-asteroid-strike.html 15 comments space
- Scenario: A large asteroid will strike Earth in three days. How will the government respond? http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/10/scenario_a_large_asteroid_will_strike_earth_in_thr.html 4 comments space
- Football Field-Sized Asteroid Has A 1-in-83 Chance Of Striking Earth In 2032 https://techcrawlr.com/football-field-sized-asteroid-has-a-1-in-83-chance-of-striking-earth-in-2032/ 493 comments astronomy
- The record of Lunar impacts may be mirrored on Earth, suggesting some asteroid strikes come in bunches https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/moon-earth-meteorite-impacts/ 3 comments space
- Asteroid The Size Of A Grand Piano Strikes Earth And We Knew Exactly Where And When Says NASA https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/03/15/asteroid-the-size-of-a-grand-piano-strikes-earth-and-we-knew-exactly-where-and-when-says-nasa/ 380 comments space
- Asteroid The Size Of A Grand Piano Strikes Earth And We Knew Exactly Where And When Says NASA https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/03/15/asteroid-the-size-of-a-grand-piano-strikes-earth-and-we-knew-exactly-where-and-when-says-nasa/ 892 comments technology
- When an asteroid that could have earth ending effects strikes the ocean, why would it not just have the effect of a rock skipping on water? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/75264j/when_an_asteroid_that_could_have_earth_ending/ 9 comments askscience
- Asteroid could strike Earth day prior to election: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.foxnews.com/us/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-strike-earth-on-day-prior-to-election-day 19 comments nottheonion
- Asteroid could strike Earth day prior to election: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.foxnews.com/us/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-strike-earth-on-day-prior-to-election-day 28 comments nottheonion
- NASA: Massive nearly 1-mile-wide asteroid to fly strikingly close to Earth next month http://www.ajc.com/news/potentially-hazardous-monster-asteroid-will-fly-close-earth/efacurt7ncz1hmuzgy1udm/ 15 comments worldnews
- A giant meteor shower bombarded Earth and the Moon 800 million years ago with more than 30 times the force of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs https://www.france24.com/en/20200721-massive-meteor-shower-hit-earth-and-moon-800-mn-years-ago 37 comments worldnews
- Nasa reveals new five-step plan to defend Earth from an apocalyptic asteroid strike. And yes, Nasa has a planetary defense officer. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6587550/nasa-plan-defend-earth-asteroid/ 16 comments science
- Nasa has confirmed – after rumours swept the internet about an imminent asteroid strike expected between 15 and 28 September – that the two-week period in question will be entirely free of Earth-destroying space attacks. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/nasa-says-the-world-is-not-going-to-end-in-september 283 comments worldnews
- Asteroid strikes 'increase threefold over last 300m years' - The rate at which asteroids are slamming into Earth has nearly tripled since the dinosaurs first roamed, according to a survey of the scars left behind. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/17/asteroid-strikes-earth-moon-threefold-dinosaurs 12 comments worldnews
- Researchers found that at least 85% of 200,000 asteroids—which are responsible for most of the meteorites that strike Earth—came from the splintering, or breaking up, of perhaps five or six ancient minor planets that existed four billion years ago. https://www.newsweek.com/astronomers-have-discovered-where-most-asteroids-and-meteorites-solar-system-1005627 732 comments space
- Meet Earth's Guardians, the real-world X-men and women saving us from existential threats: Asteroid strikes, rogue AIs, autonomous weapons - and maybe a despotic politician or two - could wipe out civilisation. Earth's Guardians are here to save us http://www.wired.co.uk/article/earth-guardians-existential-risk 5 comments technology
- Part of a comet found trapped in a meteorite that came from an asteroid. Researchers think the comet fragment was hurtling toward the Sun when it glommed onto a growing asteroid. Eventually, the asteroid broke up, and the turducken-like space rock fell to Earth, striking Antarctica’s LaPaz Icefield. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/04/the-turducken-space-rock-antarctic-meteorite-hid-comet-inside-asteroid-remains 3 comments space
- Earth and Moon 'bombarded with large asteroids 3.9bn years ago': Any life which may have existed on Earth 3.9 billion years ago would have been wiped out in a devastating asteroid strike, new analysis of Moon craters indicates. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8009639/earth-and-moon-bombarded-with-large-asteroids-3.9bn-years-ago.html 17 comments science
- [IMAGE] The "End of the World" as we know it: This fascinating chart details the time-line of complete disappearance of any trace of human civilization from Earth, in case of an "extinction event": asteroid strike, or all-out nuclear war. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/316941771_f26354c519_o.jpg 12 comments reddit.com
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