Yom Kippur is traditionally when, according to Jewish belief, God signs our fates in the Book of Life, judging our actions and deciding who lives and who dies. Also, asteroids are flying past Earth.
The asteroid sample is headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday.
Asteroid 2021 JA5 is around the size of 81 bulldogs, the symbol of the college football team of the University of Georgia. But it won't hit us – hopefully the Bulldog team will have better luck.
An AI algorithm was able to spot a massive potentially hazardous asteroid, 2022 SF289, that humans had missed, showing the capabilities of this technology for planetary defense.
Asteroid 2023 OR1 is set to pass Earth on Thursday, July 27, and is the size of over 100 Barbie dolls. It won't hit the Earth though – it's fantastic!
Asteroid 2023 NE1, said by NASA to pass the Earth on Wednesday, July 19, is as much as 100 meters in diameter. Or in other words, around 45 aardvarks.
Primates, whom humans evolved from, rabbits and hares, dogs and cats were shown to have evolved just before the mass extinction, so they coexisted with dinosaurs.
Asteroid 2023 NY – no relation to the US state of New York – is set to pass Earth on Saturday. At 25 meters, it's around the size of over 35 chickens.
Asteroid 2018 NW has a diameter of around 16 meters, which is around as much as 100 hot dogs. But hold onto your buns because it isn't going to hit us – though it may fly close.
Asteroid 2023 HO6 is passing Earth right after the Fourth of July. In honor of this, we are using a quintessential American food, the McDonald's Big Mac hamburger, as our metric of choice.
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