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Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET
Mar 20, 2013 (JPL)
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Go...
Sunset Comet
Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)
March 15, 2013: For a comet, visiting the sun is risky business. Fierce solar heat vaporizes gases long frozen in the fragile nucleus, breaking up some comets a...
Long Awaited, Comet PanSTARRS Now Glows in the Twilight
Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)
Look west around the middle of twilight on a clear evening this week, and with a little luck - and maybe binoculars - you might spot a one-time-only visitor new...
Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March
Mar 12, 2013 (JPL)
Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to se...
Earth to get another asteroid viewing
Mar 08, 2013 (UPI)
Earth will have a visit by yet another asteroid this weekend but there is no danger of a cosmic collision, NASA says. When the 262-foot-wide asteroid will be ab...
A Naked-Eye Comet Invites Itself To The March Sky, 2013
Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)
It will appear in the west at sunset, from around the 8th to the 13th of March 2013, and will be visible to the naked eye up to the end of the month: comet Pan-...
e2v image sensors launched into space on board NEOSSat
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
On 25 February 2013, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space on board NEOSSat, a Canadian microsatellite mission to discover and determine...
Iowa State developing ideas to save the Earth from asteroids
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
Bong Wie has heard the snickers. You want to protect the Earth from asteroids? Where were you when the dinosaurs needed you? You want to be like Bruce Willis in...
Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
Mar 06, 2013 (JPL)
Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October 2014. The latest trajectory of comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) generated by the N...
Dawn forging through the main asteroid belt
Mar 04, 2013 (JPL)
The indefatigable Dawn spacecraft is continuing to forge through the main asteroid belt, gently thrusting with its ion propulsion system. As it gradually change...
Stott Space Aims to Mine Asteroids this Decade
Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)
Space may be the final frontier, but that isn't stopping Stott Space Inc. from making it a frontier accessible to the masses. With the launch of their Indiegogo...
Meteorite's Powerful Blast Due to Space Collisions
Feb 28, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
The powerful blast of a meteorite above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk was probably caused by its previous "space collisions" with other celestial bodies, said P...
Comet may give Mars a close shave in 2014
Feb 27, 2013 (UPI)
A newly discovered comet is heading for Mars and should give the red planet a close fly-by in October 2014, Australian astronomers say. Comet hunter Robert McNa...
The NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign
Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)
In November 2013, comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) will pass the Sun at just 0.012AU (~1.1-million kilometers above the solar surface), classifying it as a Sungrazing Com...
Discovering the birth of an asteroid trail
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
Unlike comets, asteroids are not characterised by exhibiting a trail, but there are now ten exceptions. Spanish researchers have observed one of these rare aste...
Asteroid impact mission targets Didymos
Feb 26, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The recent Russian meteor and, on the same day, our planet'...
Apophis Risk Assessment Updated
Feb 26, 2013 (JPL)
A recent study has updated the impact hazard assessment for 99942 Apophis, a 325-meter diameter near-Earth asteroid that has been the focus of considerable atte...
India rocket launches asteroid-spotting satellite
Feb 25, 2013 (AFP)
India launched a rocket Monday carrying seven satellites into orbit, including a Canadian orbiter that will scan for asteroids that could be hurtling toward Ear...
Rare asteroid sporting 'tail' spotted
Feb 21, 2013 (UPI)
Asteroids, unlike comets, are seldom seen sporting a tail as they orbit the sun, but Spanish astronomers say they've observed one of these rare exceptions. Usin...
Comet Pan-Starrs Will Be Visible In Northern Hemisphere In March
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Comet Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4, discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala in June 2011, is expected to become visible to the naked eye in the Northern H...
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