Giant spider crawls all over 34m space antenna in Canberra
Canberra s Deep Space Communications Complex is one of the world s most powerful means of looking into the depths of the Solar System.
So it would make sense that an alien spider the size of a football field would target it in its initial invasion of planet Earth.
That s not what happened, but that s what it looked like for a brief moment.
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A security camera fixed on the giant antenna at Tidbinbilla had an unwelcome pedestrian atop it.
A huntsman crawled over the lens, making it seem like it was dwarfing the 34-metre wide deep space antenna.
Asteroid Apophis to Leave Earth Alone for a Century, Still Scary-Close in 2029 1 Apr 2021, 7:46 UTC ·
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It’s not a nice feeling knowing that at any time, a huge piece of space rock could slam onto our heads and end life as we know it. Luckily, unlike all the other species that have ever roamed our planet, humans can track some of these celestial hazards and, if need be, possibly even mount a defense against them. 1 photo
Of the impossible-to-accurately-count asteroids and comets out there, one stands out as a real danger for Earth. It’s called 99942 Apophis, named after the Egyptian deity that was the enemy of the Sun god Ra, and was discovered in 2004 by a team from the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).
On Friday, a large asteroid roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower zipped past the Earth. The asteroid posed no hazard to the Earth on this flyby as it was more
God of Chaos asteroid hurtling past Earth tonight will be visible to the naked eye
The colossal space rock nicknamed Apophis, or the God of Chaos , was first discovered in 2004 and is set to come within 10,471,577 miles of Earth at 1am on Saturday
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