Valentine's Day

AURORA, Colo. (KKTV) - A Colorado man won big after purchasing a lottery ticket on Valentine's Day! The Colorado Lottery is reporting Mohamed Y. of Aurora ...

“When he received a ‘Claim at Lottery’ slip at the store, the clerk told him he had won at least $500,” part of a news release from the Colorado Lottery reads. leading to the Colorado Lotto+ jackpot. The Colorado Lottery is reporting Mohamed Y.

Along with flowers from Studio 9 and candy from Plantpeddler, Vickie and her honey (Arlyn) were also able to eat out at Atomic Pizza and see a movie! Grube was ...

In reference to the poor delivery service of the post office in the Roanoke Valley and surrounding areas, I have a positive experience to tell.

I wasn't even expecting them to arrive by Valentine's Day because of the late mailing and on a weekend day. I mailed my grandsons' valentine cards from the Salem post office. Believe me, I have had problems like everyone else, but on Saturday, Feb.

An asteroid around the same size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was discovered by NASA last month. It chance of impacting Earth on February 14, 2046 at 4:44pm ...

The last significant impact was on February 15, 2013, known as Chelyabinsk. The asteroid, known as 2023 DW, is large enough to destroy a metropolitan area - and Los Angeles and Washington DC are in the potential impact zone NASA confirmed that it successfully deflected an asteroid in space. A city-destroying asteroid about the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa could hit Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046. [READ MORE: How to survive a killer asteroid impact](/sciencetech/article-11818053/How-survive-killer-asteroid-impact-NASA-deflecting-mission-fail.html) [NASA](/sciencetech/nasa/index.html) has warned a city-destroying asteroid about the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa could hit Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046. Don't make plans for Valentine's Day 2046!

According to NASA, asteroid 2023 DW is roughly 162 feet wide (roughly as wide as an NFL football field) and will take 271 days to complete one solar orbit.

According to the PDCO, there is a greater than 1% chance of this happening over the next 50 years. 26, 2022, DART used autonomous navigation to hone in on a binary asteroid system – the larger Didymos and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos, about 7 million miles from Earth. [WATCH: METEOR BURNS BRIGHT AS IT STREAKS, EXPLODES OVER EUROPE](https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/meteor-burns-bright-over-europe-as-it-plummets-to-earth) NASA officials give it a 1 in 560 chance of impacting Earth. You can also see the next five close approaches to Earth and explore past, present and future missions to asteroids and comets. 14, 2046, when it passes the planet at a distance of about 1.1 million miles.

NASA has confirmed they are tracking a new asteroid that's 160ft long and could be set for a collision with Earth in another 23 years, and will continue to ...

Another event occurred in January 2023 when a newly-discovered asteroid flew past Earth at a height of 3,600 kilometres (2,200 miles), one of the closest encounters ever recorded. The mission aim was to test a method of planetary defence against near-Earth objects (NEOs) and assess how much a spacecraft's impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. 2023 DW was first discovered in Chile at the end of February and is predicted to have a 1 in 560 chance of hitting Earth.

NASA says asteroid named 2023 DW has a one in 625 chance of slamming into Earth on Feb. 14, 2046.

[successfully changed the orbit](https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/nasas-first-planetary-defense-test-changes-asteroids-orbit/) of a small asteroid in order to redirect its trajectory in a mission called DART. [impacting Earth](https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/monstrous-asteroid-to-speed-by-earth-next-week/) increases, NASA has proven it has the technology to protect the planet. [An asteroid](https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/monstrous-asteroid-to-speed-by-earth-next-week/) the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a small chance of barreling into Earth on Valentine’s Day 23 years from now, according to scientists.

An asteroid could potentially strike Earth on February 14, 2046, NASA said in a tweet on Tuesday.The newly discovered asteroid, known as 2023 DW, has.

The mission aimed to test a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs) and assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. (1/2)— NASA Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) [Life](/life-style) It caused a 12-megaton explosion that flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 square miles). The impact of the asteroid left no significant human casualties. Often when new objects are first discovered, it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future.

The asteroid is moving at a speed of 24.64 kilometres per second (approx) in relation to the Sun. One orbit of the Sun in 2023 DW takes roughly 271 days to ...

Taking to Twitter, NASA Asteroid Watch’s has tweeted, “We've been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2046. It may pass within 0.49 AU of the star in the centre of our planetary system when it is at its perihelion, or closest point to the Sun. The asteroid 2023 DW, which has an estimated diameter of roughly 49.29 metres, is currently located about 0.12 astronomical units (AU) from Earth, according to NASA's Asteroid Watch.