Giant asteroid, bigger than Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar, set to zoom past Earth this month
A giant asteroid, moving at a speed of 18 kilometres per second, will whiz past Earth in August 2019.
Aug 14, 2019, 15:20 PM IST
Close shave- Giant asteroid passes within one million miles of Earth
The asteroid, known as 2014 JO25, was about 1.1 million miles away from Earth - about 4.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon - when it passed by at about 8:30 a.m. E.S.T.
Apr 20, 2017, 09:28 AM IST
NASA's spacecraft set to explore giant asteroid that could destroy Earth
The asteroid, named Bennu, can indeed strike us and and cause massive destruction after being dislodged by a gravitational pull.
Aug 01, 2016, 10:40 AM IST
Giant asteroid 2015 TB145 to whizz past Earth on October 31
The asteroid, known as 2015 TB145, will pass our planet by only 499,000 kilometres - the closest pass since July 2006.
Oct 19, 2015, 23:09 PM IST
