# Asteroid
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This year
2024
Asteroid 2008 OS7
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of football pitch to pass Earth on Friday
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Jan 31st 2024, 4:57 PM
Last year
2023
Outer Space
Nasa to release first images of largest asteroid sample ever collected in space
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Oct 11th 2023, 7:52 AM
European Space Agency
Large asteroid to safely zoom between Earth and Moon this evening in once-in-a-decade event
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Mar 25th 2023, 2:12 PM
near-Earth object
Lorry-sized asteroid to come 'extraordinarily close' to Earth but NASA says it poses no danger
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Jan 26th 2023, 1:07 PM
All time
disaster prep
NASA launches spacecraft to kick an asteroid off course
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Nov 24th 2021, 6:41 AM
Bennu
Odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth now higher, but still very slim
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Aug 12th 2021, 7:14 AM
Bennu
'I can’t believe we pulled this off': Nasa craft lands on asteroid to collect rubble as part of rare space mission
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Oct 21st 2020, 12:28 PM
1998 OR2
Mile-wide asteroid set to pass within 3.9m miles of Earth today
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Apr 29th 2020, 11:08 AM
ideal touchdown
Japan probe lands 300 million km away in hunt for clues to origin of life
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Feb 22nd 2019, 7:27 AM
not armageddon
An asteroid the size of your house will give Earth a close shave tomorrow morning
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Oct 11th 2017, 2:45 PM
2014-JO25
A massive asteroid is going to come 'very close' to Earth today
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Apr 19th 2017, 11:36 AM
Australia
Scientists find evidence of giant asteroid that would have triggered huge earthquakes and tsunamis
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May 18th 2016, 8:47 AM
mar ref
A Cork man thinks a meteor is coming to kill us all after the Yes vote
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May 26th 2015, 9:00 PM
don't wanna miss a thing
Video: An asteroid the size of a cruise ship passed over Ireland last night
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Jan 27th 2015, 8:43 AM
Meteorite
Did you see the 'giant fireball' over the east of the country last night?
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Nov 19th 2014, 12:01 AM
Voyager
Asteroid hunting probe to travel four years to potato-shaped space rock
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Sep 2nd 2014, 9:30 AM
Asteroid
LIVE: NASA coverage of a giant asteroid sweeping past Earth
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Feb 15th 2013, 6:40 PM
Look out below!
What do you mean you missed it? An asteroid just flew past Earth
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Jan 27th 2012, 3:53 PM