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Asteroid set to fly by Earth next week appears to ‘wearing a face mask’

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Asteroid half the size of Mount Everest is set to fly by Earth next week and an image shows the object ‘wearing a mask’ similar to the scientist observing it amid the coronavirus pandemic An asteroid is set to pass within 3.9 million miles of Earth April 29  It was first spotted in 1998 and … Read more

Saturn-like ‘planet’ may have been a giant dust cloud caused by asteroid collision

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The first planet to be discovered outside our solar system was never a planet and may be a giant dust cloud created by the collision of two icy asteroids, a study finds. Astronomers spotted what was thought to be a Saturn like planet lying 25 light years from Earth in the star system Fomalhaut 12 … Read more