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NASA space probe Lucy flies by asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, the first of eight asteroids planned to be visited by the spacecraft.
2023-11-1

A 1 m near-Earth asteroid is discovered before falling as a harmless bolide over central Ontario, Canada, at 08:27 UTC. It is the sixth asteroid to be discovered before impacting Earth.
2022-11-19

NASA announces the scheduled launch of Lucy, a twelve-year space probe on the Jupiter trojan asteroids, the first mission to do so. It will launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16.
2021-09-28

JAXA space probe "Hayabusa2" delivers the first ever subsurface asteroid samples to Earth. The capsule, containing a small amount of material from Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu, landed in the Australian outback.
2020-12-5

Hyperbolic asteroids A-2017 U7 and A-2018 C2 are announced, although their orbit suggests they are not interstellar in origin.
2018-03-4

Asteroid 3122 Florence, which is roughly 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) wide, comes within 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth — approximately 18 times the distance from our planet to the Moon.
2017-09-1

Asteroid 2013 TV135 is discovered with an approximately 1 in 63,000 chance of colliding with the earth in 2032.
2013-10-18

A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 ET with an estimated diameter of about 100 meters comes within 960,000 km from the Earth's surface.
2013-03-9

NASA scientists are planning to capture a 500 ton near-Earth asteroid, relocate it and turn it into a space station for astronauts on their route to Mars after 2025.
2012-12-27

Scientists report Chinese deep-space probe Chang'e 2 successfully took a series of images of the asteroid 4179 Toutatis during flyby on 13 December.
2012-12-16