A computer-generated image of what Earth would have looked like from Toutatis when it flew by in 1996 (NASA) Last week an asteroid known as 4179 Toutatis passed by Earth at a relatively close distance ...
A new video captures the giant asteroid 4179 Toutatis tumbling through space on its flyby of Earth earlier this week. The asteroid Toutatis video, which is about 40 seconds long, combines 64 radar ...
A Chinese repurposed lunar orbiter, Chang'e-2, has flown by asteroid Toutatis, Chinese space officials announced. Chang'e-2 was launched on Oct. 1, 2010, the second moon probe launched by China as ...
Update: The live shows are over, though you can still watch a replay of the Google + hangout below. Watch live as the 3-mile-wide asteroid 4179 Toutatis zips by the Earth today with this ...
The biggest asteroid to cross the earth’s orbit, 4179 Toutatis, poses a threat to the planet but could probably be obliterated by a nuclear warhead as it is likely just a pile of rubble glued together ...
Space rock, or space rocks? A new study of asteroid 4179 Toutatis suggests the large asteroid that zips past Earth every four years is actually a collection of rocky fragments held together by gravity ...
NANJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- A ginger-root-shaped asteroid named Toutatis, which poses a potential threat to earth, might have formed from the merger of two smaller asteroids, say researchers from ...
For more information on Toutatis, as well as other upcoming sky events, please see the October 2004 issue of Astronomy magazine. More Toutatis facts Officially designated asteroid 4179, Toutatis is a ...
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