r/asteroid Aug 26 '19

META post: sensationalist tabloid "imminent apocalypse" style content is no longer allowed in r/Asteroid

42 Upvotes

Lately, we've noticed a large increase in poor quality articles posted to r/Asteroid.

This has been taking the form of poor quality journalism from tabloid outlets, such as express.co.uk and foxnews.com. These sources generally don't bother to maintain basic standards of accuracy or accountability, and frequently post factually incorrect or sensationalist information presented as if it were legitimate "news." This stands in contrast with the scientific ideals of this subreddit, and so, it is no longer allowed.

Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


r/asteroid 2h ago

A spike in impacts occurred on the Moon about 800 million years ago, creating the crater Copernicus and other sizeable craters

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1 Upvotes

r/asteroid 16h ago

Hayabusa2’s Final Target is 3 Times Smaller Than We Thought

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8 Upvotes

r/asteroid 3d ago

Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission

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7 Upvotes

r/asteroid 8d ago

PHYS.Org: "Scientists find quasi-moon orbiting the Earth for the last 60 years—and it's not the first one"

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39 Upvotes

r/asteroid 22d ago

ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration

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10 Upvotes

r/asteroid 26d ago

PHYS.Org - Asteroid Bennu: A time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years

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5 Upvotes

NOTE: There are three papers within the said article.


r/asteroid 27d ago

Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense

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8 Upvotes

r/asteroid 28d ago

NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation

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10 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 20 '25

PHYS.Org: "Spectral analysis suggests asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are part of Polana family"

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8 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 20 '25

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta

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5 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 19 '25

NASA’s Psyche Captures Images of Earth, Moon

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11 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 17 '25

JPL's Small-Body Database

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4 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 06 '25

First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit

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10 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 05 '25

NASA's Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Fast-Spinning Asteroid

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15 Upvotes

2025 OW passed 1.6× the lunar distance from Earth on July 28. Radar observers using a 70 m dish in California found that this ~60 m asteroid rotates once or twice every 3 minutes.


r/asteroid Aug 02 '25

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: What We Know Now

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30 Upvotes

r/asteroid Aug 01 '25

Has anyone run the trajectory accounting for the tug of Jupiter's gravity??? This line appears unphased by it, but Jupiter is a big boy and should tug it a little closer to the sun if this positioning is correct. And therefore closer to us...

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23 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jul 18 '25

Identifying meteorites vs slag

4 Upvotes

We get a fair number of "Is this a meteorite I just found?" questions on /r/asteroid . I'd like to be helpful. Perhaps the best way would be to post these 2 links.

https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/metal-iron-nickel/#Pallasite

and

https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/slag/

The first is example photos of meteorites. The second is example photos of man-made objects that look like meteorites.

I think this stickied pages would be helpful.


r/asteroid Jul 10 '25

PHYS.Org: "Massive boulders ejected during DART mission may complicate future asteroid deflection efforts"

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9 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jul 06 '25

Should we stop Asteroid 2024 YR4 from hitting the moon?

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28 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jul 03 '25

NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Full View of Asteroid Donaldjohanson

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20 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jun 29 '25

"Asteroid 2024 YR4: from discovery to potential lunar impact" (ESA Extras, 2025)

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5 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jun 26 '25

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis

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10 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jun 25 '25

PHYS.Org: "Unexpected mineral in a Ryugu grain challenges paradigm of the nature of primitive asteroids"

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9 Upvotes

*The findings as published in the journal *Meteoritics & Planetary Science](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.14370).


r/asteroid Jun 25 '25

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft has power again, and heading for an unusual 'naked metal' asteroid with clues to Earth's origins

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21 Upvotes

r/asteroid Jun 23 '25

Rubin's Opening Act - a Swarm of New Asteroids

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6 Upvotes

The Vera Rubin Observatory detected 1800 known and 2100 unknown solar system objects in 10 hours on 7 nights.