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NASA finally unlocks asteroid sample locked behind stuck fasteners

The Brew News Team   Tue 16 Jan 2024    

For several months, the space agency dedicated efforts to create tools capable of unlocking stuck fasteners that had locked the sample gathered from the nearby asteroid Bennu. NASA recently announced the successful release of valuable material collected from the near-Earth […]

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UAE launches new Asteroid Belt Exploration Project

The Brew News Team   Tue 30 May 2023    

Abu Dhabi: With the start of the “UAE Asteroid Belt Exploration Project,” the UAE has announced another significant milestone in its space exploration program. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, […]

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This Day, That Year – October 29

Brew Admin   Sat 29 Oct 2022    

This day in history we feature Galileo Spacecraft. The American Galileo spacecraft was the first probe to visit an asteroid on this day in 1991. Trivia – Galileo Spacecraft Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet […]

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Supersonic asteroid 10 times faster than bullet passes Earth

Brew Admin   Fri 09 Sep 2022    

New York: A small supersonic asteroid, travelling at ten times the speed of a bullet passed by Earth recently. The asteroid has been given the designation 2022 QC7 and it is not too big, with a width ranging from just […]

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Scientists discover an 8 kilometres wide undersea crater created as the dinosaurs disappeared

Brew Admin   Tue 23 Aug 2022    

Earth: An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth’s surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc on the planet. It isn’t the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously […]

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A massive Asteroid is heading toward Earth

Brew Admin   Sat 14 May 2022    

An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is hurtling toward earth. Although it is that big, it is going to be distant enough to not cause any actual harm.  It is known as 388945 (2008 TZ3) that has been classified […]

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An asteroid is headed for Earth, should we be concerned?

Vismay Anand   Fri 14 Jan 2022    

A massive asteroid, almost the size of the tallest building on Earth, is heading for the planet in mid-December, as per NASA’s asteroid tracker. Designated 163899 (2003 SD220), the massive asteroid has a diameter of approximately 791 meters, nearly the […]

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A deliberate crash for the greater good of planet Earth

Brew Admin   Tue 23 Nov 2021    

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. But the true test for this asteroid deflection technology will come in September 2022, when the […]

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Keep an eye out, something is headed Earth’s way!

Brew Admin   Mon 08 Nov 2021    

An asteroid the height of the Eiffel Tower is heading in the direction of earth and is due to reach its closest point just before Christmas. 4660 Nereus is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and would cause a devastating […]

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This one was quite a close call!

Brew Admin   Tue 07 Sep 2021    

NASA keeps a keen eye on Near-earth Objects (NEO) through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena. Recently, the observatory-cum-laboratory traced the 1000th near-earth asteroid (NEA), named ‘2021 PJ1,’ as it passed by Earth at a distance of 1.7 million kilometres. […]

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Cosmic fireball lights up the sky in UK

Brew Admin   Mon 01 Mar 2021    

On Sunday night, a large swath of meteors gleamed in the British sky, making the lucky ones happy. Doorbell cameras across the UK captured very bright meteors called fireballs The meteor was spotted shortly before 10 o’clock in the evening […]

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