NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
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NASA's Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity Almost Failed.
But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...
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Asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere and bursts over the Pacific Ocean; What happens next is surprising
The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...
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Volcanic ash from Mexican volcano spotted over Florida
Mexico’s most active volcano, along with the jet stream pattern, sent ash over the Gulf of Mexico and Florida ... Closer to the volcano’s crater, flight operations into and out of Mexico ...
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Hera – planetary defence against asteroid impacts
The asteroid 99942 Apophis, discovered in 2004 ... However, the largest part of the Chicxulub crater lies in the Gulf of Mexico and is not visible at the Earth’s surface, as the rock crashed into the ...
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Space station crew taken for medical evaluation after return from record-setting 235-day mission
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico to close out an extended 235-day expedition to the International Space Station.
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A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... Scientists suspect the impact left behind a monstrous crater some 297 miles (487 kilometers) wide ...
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Gulf states' reluctance to allow use of its airspace may be delaying Israel's Iran strikes
Israel’s much-anticipated attack on Iran is taking longer than expected because Israel has had to consider adjusting to warnings from Gulf Arab states not to use their airspace in the attack ...
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The Four Most Underrated Vacation Spots in Mexico
Ten million visitors came through Cancún in 2023, representing 1 in 4 tourists to Mexico that year. For a country three times the size of Texas, rich with culture, art and nature, the figure is a ...
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US Gulf of Mexico deals pad Transocean’s $1.3 billion backlog in the third quarter
All three of those ultra-deepwater drillship contracts were for work in the US Gulf of Mexico, and they carry a combined backlog value of $955 million. Transocean also signed a contract with a $ ...
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Shootout between warring cartels leaves 16 dead in southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A shootout between two battling criminal groups in Mexico's southern Pacific state of Guerrero on Thursday left 16 people dead, authorities said, as the country has ...
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Texas DPS surveillance plane captures Mexican cartel factions during gun battle near border
The Gulf Cartel controls much of the area near where the fighting took place Wednesday, but there have been ongoing battles between Gulf Cartel factions for control of smuggling routes along the ...