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Asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building hurtling towards Earth as Nasa hires man to stop it
The snappily-named 101955 Bennu is 490 metres across - almost 50m larger than the New York City landmark - meaning ... 510 megatons - pale in comparison. The asteroid's initial impact would ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
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Nasa reveals first findings from asteroid that could explain origins of life
The asteroid material "included waterlogged clay minerals", said The New York Times. This "could help solve how Earth became a water planet" as asteroids similar to Bennu "may have crashed into ...
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Asteroid Bennu: What the Empire State-sized asteroid can do to Earth if it hits it in 2182
Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182. 'A new eye on the Sun': NASA's PUNCH to track solar storms in stunning 3D ‘When space ...
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Asteroid could hit Earth and spark global winter as year of 'impact' pinpointed
The asteroid Bennu has been at the ... rock can reveal about the origins of life, a new study has introduced a far more unsettling possibility—Bennu could eventually collide with Earth.