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Russians plan asteroid diversion
Nazdrovia! Nothing like starting off 2010 with a little talk of Armageddon (the movie). Rumors were flying around the Internet just before the New Year that the Russians are planning a mission to...
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New Report: Get real about asteroids hitting Earth
It has been said, and said more often these days, that humanity is good at dealing with trouble in the here-and-now; and terrible at dealing with disaster in the future. Consider the response to the...
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Science panel: Chicxulub did it
Sometimes ‘the facts’ discovered by science answer questions by themselves, but much of the time facts are used for competing hypotheses. Sometimes more facts settle the issue of which hypothesis...
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Two Notable Space Successes
Concerning space missions, there’s always something happening in space. Most of it is ‘routine’ in the sense that what happens was expected and a normal part of the mission. Re-supply of the...
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Almahata Sitta: A meteorite suggests a new way to form amino acids
Asteroid collision, NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture….credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt Finding amino acids, the building blocks of life, in meteorites is not new. Finding them in a meteorite that is a...
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Asteroid 2005 YU55: No impact on the neighborhood
Asteroid 2005 YU55 photographed in passing…Credit: NASA November 9, 2011: It was a reminder for the neighborhood (Earth and Moon) that strangers pass in the night. Night being metaphorical in this...
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Mining Near-Earth Asteroids: The trillion dollar enticement
Asteroid Ida…….credit: NASA/JPL The race to put a man on the Moon between the United States and the Soviet Union is long over. NASA got there first, national glory was achieved and then NASA and the...
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The day of the asteroid and meteor
It certainly grabbed the media’s attention – the meteor that streaked across Russian skies. There was far less attention for the unseen asteroid that slipped by the Earth a few hours later. Still, it...
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ESA is doing something about rogue asteroids
Not long ago Earth experienced a ‘double barrel’ event from the skies, one a tiny ‘rock’ of about 17 meters (50 feet) in diameter that roared overhead in Russia, injuring about a thousand people and...
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