periods of darkness in winter.Day 3Asteroid investigation (P6)Choose the best answer:Day 3Asteroid investigation (P6)Choose the best answer:1. What do we know about Osiris-REx?A. It was launched ……

Chinese astronomers have named an asteroid after Jin Yong, a bestseller writer of kungfu novels. The naming ceremony of asteroid No 10930, discovered by a Chinese astronomer in 1998, took place ……

NASA (美国国家航空航天局) scientists are making plans to visit an asteroid (小行星) before 2025... asteroid could also help scientists plan for ways to protect Earth if an asteroid hit it.Earlier ……

For those who love to study the skies, you will soon have the chance to see an asteroid (小行星) up close. The large asteroid, known as 2014 JO25, will make a close approach to Earth on April 19 ……

PANIC struck last week when some people predicted that an asteroid (小行星) could be about to hit the Earth.The troublemaker is asteroid 2012 DA14, a small near-Earth asteroid. On February 15, 2013 ……

LONDON: An asteroid the size of a soccer field narrowly missed the Earth by 120,000 kilometres...."In the unlikely event the asteroid had struck Earth in a populated area, it would have caused ……

Asteroid emergencyIT sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. Two French researchers proposed last week to capture and "park" a small asteroid near the earth. This could possibly intercept a bigger ……

Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Dimorphos asteroid.  NASA  NASA did their first try of hitting an asteroid on purposeNASA did their first try of hitting an asteroid ……

”. It’s like a comet or an asteroid (小行星), only way more interesting.Karen Meech, leader of the team... to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, “but its sudden appearance shows us that more work needs ……

on November 24. The probe (探测器) will crash itself into an asteroid. It will make the asteroid move away...器) will crash itself into an asteroid. It will make the asteroid move away from Earth.Meet DARTMeet ……

小行星撞地球不会是末日来临。IN the film Armageddon (《绝世天劫》), an asteroid (小行星) the size of Qinghai province... to blow up the asteroid. Many other films discuss the same kind of thing. But now, people are talking ……

). Last week they reached an agreement — a huge asteroid (小行星) wiped them out.After looking at 20 years... to this conclusion. They think a huge asteroid hit what is now Mexico about 65 million years ago. It measured around ……

EVER wondered what your chances would be if an asteroid (小行星) fell on you near where you live... asteroid hit a particular place on Earth.Users can type in the size of an asteroid, its speed, what ……

小行星来袭该如何应对？SIXTY-FIVE million years ago, an asteroid (小行星) that crashed on Earth led.... Two objects from space – a meteor (陨石) and an asteroid called 2012 DA14 – visited Earth’s atmosphere ……

the sameorbitwith Earth. Sometimes, as the two race around the sun, the asteroid is ahead, sometimes it's behind. But it's never quite touching."This is one of the most interesting orbits for an asteroid we have ever ……