Target Earth: how asteroids made an impact on Australia
- Written by Andrew Glikson, Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
Gosses Bluff impact crater in the Northern Territory.NASA’s Earth Observatory
Our planet has had a few close encounters with asteroids of late.
Asteroid 2018 CC came within about 184,000km of Earth on February 6 this year. A few days later asteroid 2018 CB came within 64,000km, which is less than one-fifth the distance of Earth to the Moon.
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