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Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14
Feb 20, 2013 (JPL)
An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was obtained on the night of Feb. 15/16, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep S...
Asteroid 2012 DA14 Speeds Away From Earth
Feb 20, 2013 (SPX)
On February 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed extraordinarily close to the Earth. Unlike the unexpected asteroid collision over Russia that day, this encounter neve...
Asteroid Steins' hidden gems
Feb 20, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Rosetta spacecraft snapped images of asteroid Steins as it flew by the diamond-shaped asteroid on 5 September 2008 revealing a tiny world with a big histo...
How Do We Know the Russian Meteor and 2012 DA14 Aren't Related?
Feb 20, 2013 (SPX)
So how can we tell that the Russian meteor isn't related to asteroid 2012 DA14? One way is to look at meteor showers -- the Orionids all have similar orbits to ...
Space likely for rare earths search, scientists say
Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)
The quest for rare earths vital to some of modern life's most indispensable technologies may see mining robots jet to the stars within decades, a world-first co...
Asteroid whizzes safely past Earth
Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)
A closely tracked asteroid, about 150-feet (45-meters) wide, whizzed safely past Earth on Friday, the same day a much smaller, previously undetected meteor hit ...
Asteroid to whiz past Earth Friday
Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)
NASA is closely tracking an asteroid large enough to destroy a city that is set to whiz past Earth on Friday in what the US space agency says is the closest fly...
Getting the Right Spin on a Close-Passing Asteroid
Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)
The record-setting close approach of an asteroid on Feb. 15 is an exciting opportunity for scientists, and a research team will use National Radio Astronomy Obs...
Software helps astronomers find faint, tiny comet in deep solar system
Feb 13, 2013 (UPI)
A team of European astronomers reports software helped them see what the eye could not, a previously unknown comet orbiting the sun deep in the solar system. Th...
No asteroid risk in foreseeable future
Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)
Despite the approach of an asteroid set to make a close flyby of Earth this week, an actual impact is unlikely for the foreseeable future, astronomers say. Alth...
New NASA Mission To Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
Every year, sensors designed to detect nuclear explosions see harmless bursts in Earth's upper atmosphere from the breakup of an asteroid a few yards across. Ti...
A Possible Naked-eye Comet in March
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
Feb. 6, 2013: Far beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, where the sun is a pinprick of light not much brighter than other stars, a vast swarm of icy bodies ci...
NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON
Feb 07, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). The images were taken by the spacecraft's Medium-Resolution Imager over a...
Near impact: asteroid to narrowly miss Earth
Feb 07, 2013 (AFP)
Hold on to your hats: an asteroid will zoom within spitting distance of Earth next week, in what NASA said Thursday is the closest flyby ever predicted for an o...
Asteroid 2012 DA14 - Earth Flyby Reality Check
Feb 06, 2013 (JPL)
Small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth on February 15, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and commu...
Small Asteroid to Whiz Past Earth Safely
Feb 05, 2013 (JPL)
The small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth on February 15, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and c...
Dawn Look Backs
Feb 05, 2013 (JPL)
Its long and daring interplanetary journey continuing smoothly, Dawn is making good progress in gradually reshaping its orbit around the sun. Its uniquely effic...
Prehistoric humans not wiped out by comet
Feb 04, 2013 (SPX)
Comet explosions did not end the prehistoric human culture, known as Clovis, in North America 13,000 years ago, according to research published in the journal G...
Record Setting Asteroid Flyby
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet's surface. The...
Astronomers say 'rogue' asteroids often found where they don't belong
Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)
"Rogue" asteroids -- space rocks with compositions at odds with their position in the solar system - may be the norm, not the exception, U.S. astronomers say. M...
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