Russian meteor explosion not caused by asteroid flyby, NASA scientist says

Russian meteor explosion not caused by asteroid flyby, NASA scientist says

The asteroid due to fly by Earth in two days' time has an estimated worth of $195 billion (£125 billion), according to Deep Space Industries.

A newly discovered asteroid about half the size of a football field will pass nearer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, giving scientists a rare opportunity for close-up observations without launching a

Michael Sin Reuters Feb 15, 2013. A strike from a big asteroid more than 300 million years ago left a huge impact zone buried in Australia and changed the face of the earth, researchers said on Friday. “The dust and greenhouse gases

Astronomers are completely confident that the 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 is not going to hit us, passing "only" at 17200 miles from Earthâ€"the closest encounter with an asteroid ever predicted. It's a close call, but we

Asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its closest approach to Earth at 2:25 p.m. ET Friday, and the world's astronomers have been on the lookout for it. Take a look at this sequence of images, sent by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from the Faulkes Telescope