NASA alert on gold asteroid colliding with Earth is false
Question asked:
“A NASA emitiu um alerta sobre um asteroide composto inteiramente por ouro puro que vai colidir com a Terra nos próximos meses e colapsar o sistema financeiro.”
Summary
NASA não emitiu nenhum alerta sobre um asteroide feito inteiramente de ouro que vá colidir com a Terra nos próximos meses, nem há registro de tal objeto em risco de impacto. As informações disponíveis indicam que asteroides conhecidos, como Psyche, são compostos de metal e rocha em proporções variadas e que os asteroides próximos observados não apresentam risco significativo de colisão.
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- Asteroid Psyche
The best analysis indicates that Psyche is likely made of a mixture of rock and metal, with metal composing 30% to 60% of its volume. The asteroid’s composition has been determined by radar observations and by the measurements of the asteroid’s ...
- Asteroid 2024 YR4
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- Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA Science
DART was NASA's first successful planetary defense test. The spacecraft deliberately impacted asteroid Dimorphos, and successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit.
- NASA
When a newly discovered asteroid appeared to pose a potential risk to Earth, the world’s planetary defense system faced an unprecedented real‑world test. “Planetary Defenders: This Is Not an Exercise” tells the story of how NASA and its global partners raced to observe and track the object, calculate its impact probabilities, and ultimately remove it from the risk list.
- NASA Live - NASA
NASA live: Follow live television broadcasts on NASA+, the agency's streaming service, and NASA's social media channels with this schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches and landings.
- Impact event - Wikipedia
Soon after the impact, a fireball report from Botswana arrived to the American Meteor Society. Further observations with ATLAS extended the observation arc from 1 hour to 4 hours and confirmed that the asteroid orbit indeed impacted Earth in southern Africa, fully closing the loop with the fireball report and making this the third natural object confirmed to impact Earth, and the second on land after 2008 TC3. On 8 March 2019, NASA ...
- Asteroid mining - Wikipedia
Asteroid mining is the hypothetical and technically possible extraction of materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects. Research missions focused on asteroid sample return, including Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, OSIRIS-REx, and Tianwen-2, illustrate the challenges ...
- SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
Solar flares, geomagnetic storms, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.
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