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This false-color graphic shows the topography of the far side of the Moon. The warmer colors indicate high topography and the bluer colors indicate low topography. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is shown by the shades of blue. The dashed circle shows the location of the mass anomaly under the basin. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona

Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater

June 11, 2019 by Comments are Disabled

JUNE 10, 2019 Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater by Baylor University A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system—the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin—and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study. “Imagine taking a pile […]

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The space rock passed within 50,000 miles (80,000 km) of Earth. For comparison, the average distance to the moon is 239,000 miles (384,000 km)

Earth just had a ‘close shave’ with a 180ft asteroid – and no one saw it coming

September 1, 2016 by 3 comments

By RYAN O’HARE FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 07:34 EST, 31 August 2016 | UPDATED: 07:36 EST, 31 August 2016 Via: Dailymail.co.uk [Editors note: for comparison, the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Siberia on 2/15/13, was ~17m or ~56 ft in diameter, it exploded with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs.] Earth just had a ‘close shave’ with a 180ft asteroid – […]

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