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Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon
Jun 07, 2013 (JPL)
Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip...
Massive Beast asteroid to have close call with Earth
Jun 07, 2013 (UPI)
The so-called Beast asteroid is expected to miss Earth by about 777,000 miles, which is a good thing because the 1,100-foot wide behemoth could do serious damag...
ALMA discovers comet factory
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers now know that planets around other stars are plentiful. But they do not fully understand how they form and there are many aspects of the formation o...
Chile observatory discovers 'comet factory'
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
A "dust trap" surrounding a young star could help explain how planets are formed, astronomers with Chile's ALMA space observatory said on Thursday. The findings...
New Camera At WIYN Images An Asteroid With A Long Tail
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Using the new wide-field camera at the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope, astronomers have found that the peculiar asteroid P/2010 A2's tail is much longer than previous...
A 2015 Rendezvous With Dwarf Planet Ceres
Jun 04, 2013 (JPL)
Traveling from one alien world to another, Dawn is reliably powering its way through the main asteroid belt with its ion propulsion system. Vesta, the fascinati...
Hubble telescope spots bizarre asteroid sporting comet-like tail
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
The Hubble space telescope has revealed a bizarre asteroid, U.S. astronomers say -- one trailing a tail of dust more than 600,000 miles long. The object found s...
Large asteroid completes Earth flyby
Jun 01, 2013 (UPI)
A 1.7-mile-wide asteroid whose moon alone had the potential to cripple life on Earth passed safely by under the close watch of scientists, NASA said. The massiv...
New Images of Comet ISON Hurtling Toward the Sun
May 31, 2013 (SPX)
A new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the c...
NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon
May 31, 2013 (JPL)
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network...
Telescope in Hawaii captures images of comet heading toward Earth
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
An observatory in Hawaii has captured a series of images of a comet on its way into the inner solar system hinting at coming changes, astronomers say. The time-...
Asteroid approaching for Earth fly-by found to have its own 'moon'
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
An asteroid that will pass by Earth Friday is in fact a binary asteroid, with a smaller asteroid orbiting a larger one like a small moon, U.S. astronomers say. ...
NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members
May 30, 2013 (JPL)
Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. ...
Massive asteroid with moon to pass Earth today
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
An asteroid nearly two miles (three kilometers) wide is set to pass by Earth Friday with no risk of impact, offering scientists a rare chance to study a massive...
Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
OSIRIS-REx, the $1 billion asteroid sample return mission led by the University of Arizona, reached a major milestone on May 16: The project passed the agency-l...
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretati...
Asteroid 1998 QE2 To Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship
May 16, 2013 (JPL)
On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the...
Dawn On Route From Vesta to Ceres
May 06, 2013 (JPL)
Nearly three times as far from Earth as the sun is, the Dawn spacecraft is making very good progress on its ambitious trek from Vesta to Ceres. After a spectacu...
25-foot asteroid comes within 186,000 miles of Earth
May 05, 2013 (UPI)
A 25-foot asteroid passed between Earth and the moon over the weekend, coming within 186,000 miles of Earth's surface. On average, the moon's orbit is 238,855 m...
Halley's Comet-linked meteor shower to peak Tuesday morning
May 04, 2013 (UPI)
A meteor shower made up of debris from Halley's Comet should peak just before dawn Tuesday morning. Though the comet only shows its face around Earth every 75 t...
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