The researchers found that 2024 YR4 likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has an unusually flat, disk-like shape, similar to a hockey puck, according to a statement ...

The 124-mile-wide main belt ... as the asteroid makes its closest approach to the point in the sky over Earth that is exactly opposite the sun. The three celestial bodies are in a straight line ...

The orbit brings the asteroid inside of Earth's orbit at its closest point to the Sun and then into the outer part of the asteroid belt when ... Earth in almost a straight line.

An asteroid the width of ... Follow the top star of the belt to the left shoulder — the famous Betelgeuse — and follow that in a straight line until you come to the constellation Gemini.

Professor Christopher Collins, an emeritus astrophysics professor from Liverpool John Moores University, said: “Asteroids originate form the Asteroid Belt ... almost a straight line, making ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

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The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away that it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight ...

Today, most asteroids in the solar system are found in the asteroid belt, a 140 million-mile-wide ... So how do experts draw the line between an asteroid and a meteoroid? To Marchi, if a rocky ...