Questions about the group of asteroids within 1.3 AU of Sun (on closest approach). See also: [near-earth-object]
Questions tagged [near-earth-asteroid]
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Why did they think that S509356 was in orbit around the Earth? Where is the disconnect?
tl;dr: I have met the disconnect, and the disconnect is me!
This answer suggests that the object S509356 could potentially be a candidate for being called a "mini-moon", an object which temporarily becomes gravitationally bound to the Earth and…
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What size of meteoroid would be needed to wipe out humanity on Earth?
This might belong on physics.SE or astronomy.SE or not on SE at all as it's not falsifiable
I believe a meteoroid caused the dinosaurs to go extinct by causing a global winter. However Earth has been impacted by various meteoroids even in recent…
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