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1. Interrogating The Asteroid

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   Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

2. Beautiful Cosmic Barbeque Pit

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   ... Explorer, or WISE has been a busy spacecraft since its launch on Dec. 14, 2009. It has found asteroids and comets, and now has found a cosmic barbeque pit. Well, not really, but the green material in ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

3. The Wizard Nebula

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   ... most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies. WISE joins two ... Monday, 15 March 2010

4. Biggest, Deepest Crater Exposes Hidden, Ancient Moon

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   Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

5. 30 Years Later, What Killed The Dinosaurs Is Revisited

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   San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, paleoceanographer Richard Norris is one of 41 scientists presenting evidence that an asteroid impact really did kill ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

6. Scientists Come to a Conclusion: Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

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   ... asteroid around 15 kilometers wide slamming into Earth at Chicxulub, Mexico is the culprit. After surveying a wide variety of evidence for the competing theories, the panel said the telling evidence was ... Thursday, 04 March 2010

7. Great Impact Debates

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   Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - Don Yeomans: As mentioned in last week's debate, an asteroid or comet larger than a kilometer colliding with the Earth would be a very rare event. One would only ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

8. Small Asteroids, Bread Flour, and a Dutch Physicist's 150-year Old Theory

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   Itokawa, a dusty asteroid (Credit: JAXA) No, it's not the Universe Puzzle No. 3; rather, it's an intriguing result from recent work into the strange shapes and composition of small asteroids. ... Saturday, 27 February 2010

9. Into A Volcano To Test Suitcase-Sized Science Lab

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   ... on moons, asteroids, and planets across the solar system. ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

10. UCF Professor Working On One-of-a-Kind Asteroid Space Mission

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    Tallahassee FL (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 - University of Central Florida asteroid expert Humberto Campins has been selected to help prepare a one-of-a-kind mission. The mission is unique because it aims to ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

11. UCF Professor Working On One-of-a-Kind Asteroid Space Mission

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    Tallahassee FL (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 - University of Central Florida asteroid expert Humberto Campins has been selected to help prepare a one-of-a-kind mission. The mission is unique because it aims to ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

12. Astronomical Eye Candy from WISE First Images

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    ... near Earth asteroid, and today released a "sweet" collection of eye candy from across the universe. "We've got a candy store of images coming down from space," said Edward (Ned) ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

13. Asteroid Might be Visible to Naked Eye on Feb. 17

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    Asteroid Vesta as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/ESA/U of Md./STSci/Cornell/SWRI/UCLA An asteroid could be visible with binoculars, or even the naked eye on Wednesday, February ... Tuesday, 16 February 2010

14. Saving Earth One Asteroid At A Time

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    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2010 - Last month, a baseball-sized meteorite punched through the roof of a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia, scattering insulation and ripping a hole in the carpet. What ... Sunday, 14 February 2010

15. WISE Spies Its First Comet

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    ... Explorer or WISE is living up to expectations, as it now has discovered its first comet, shortly after finding its first asteroid. The spacecraft, just launched on Dec. 14, 2009 and first spotted the ... Thursday, 11 February 2010

16. Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision

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    Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 03, 2010 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. ... Tuesday, 02 February 2010

17. Hubble Takes A Look at Possible Asteroid Collision

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    Hubble Views of Comet-like Asteroid P/2010 A2. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA) We reported earlier that on January 6, 2010, ground-based observatories may have spotted evidence that two asteroids ... Tuesday, 02 February 2010

18. Experts Chart Steps For Global Asteroid Warning Network

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    Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2010 - A group of international experts has outlined steps to establish a global detection and warning network to deal with possible asteroid threats to Earth. ... Thursday, 28 January 2010

19. Astronomers Find Near-Earth Encounters Leave Asteroids Pale

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    Manoa HI (SPX) Jan 28, 2010 - Humans may be justifiably nervous when an asteroid passes very close to Earth, but a new study has found that the encounter leaves the asteroid pale and shaken as well. ... Thursday, 28 January 2010

20. Defending Planet Earth From Asteroid And Comet Strikes

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    ... Academy of Sciences on detecting and protecting Earth from collisions with comets and asteroids. ... Tuesday, 26 January 2010