Showing posts with label asteroids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asteroids. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2017

A Giant Asteroid Was Spotted Only 24 Hours Before It Passed Earth

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Slooh's broadcast said 2017 AG3 was 'roughly the same size as the asteroid that struck Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013,' meaning ...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Vesta Is A Baby Planet, Not An Asteroid

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Artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Vesta A Baby Planet, Not ...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Mining The Asteroids

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Sean Connery in 1981's 'Outland,' a British thriller that takes place at a mining colony on a Jupiter moon. Warner Bros. Picture...
Monday, April 9, 2012

How To Destroy An Incoming Killer Asteroid With A Nuclear Blast

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Earth, and the Near-Earth Objects that Threaten It ESA - P.Carril How it Would Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear B...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Approaching Asteroid Has A One In 625 Chance Of Hitting Earth

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The asteroid has the potential to wipe out millions of lives if it landed on a city Photo: CORBIS Asteroid Heads Towards Earth With One In 6...
Monday, January 31, 2011

What If To Do If A Huge Asteroid Was Going To Slam Into Earth?

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City Tech student Thinh Lê with the apparatus he built to measure the optical transmission of meteorite samples. (Credit: Michele Forsten) A...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Outback Asteroid Strike Caused Huge Explosion And Left 80km Shock Zone, Studies Reveal

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Satellite image showing an asteroid impact crater at Gosses Bluff in the Northern Territory. Source: Supplied From The Australian: EVIDENC...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Asteroid Lutetia Has Thick Blanket Of Debris

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Photo: About 100km wide, Lutetia is the biggest asteroid yet visited by a spacecraft From The BBC: Lutetia, the giant asteroid visited by E...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered by Pan-STARRS Telescope

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Photo: Two images of 2010 ST3 (circled in green) taken by PS1 about 15 minutes apart on the night of September 16 show the asteroid moving a...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Earth And Moon 'Bombarded With Large Asteroids 3.9bn Years Ago'

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A lunar topographic map of the Moon Photo: NASA From The Telegraph: Any life which may have existed on Earth 3.9 billion years ago would h...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Two Asteroids To Pass By Earth Wednesday

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Two small asteroids in unrelated orbits will pass within the moon's distance of Earth on Wed. Both should be observable with moderate-si...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Are Our Asteroid-Destroying Nukes Big Enough?

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Asteroids! courtesy of Sandia National Laboratory From Popular Science: A new study shows that blasted asteroids could re-form, Terminator...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

'Terminator' Asteroids Could Re-Form After Nuke

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You'll need a big bomb to keep us apart (Image: Adastra/Taxi/Getty) From New Scientist: THE regenerating liquid-metal robots in the Term...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Clues To Antarctica Space Blast

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Image: The team's findings could help in the search for other ancient "airbursts" . From The BBC: A large space rock may have...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Dark, Dangerous Asteroids Found Lurking Near Earth

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Now you see it: a near-Earth object becomes visible in infrared (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA) From New Scientist: An infrared space telesco...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Did An Asteroid Strike In Australia Plunge Anglo-Saxon England Into A Mini Ice-Age?

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A veil of dust thrown up by an asteroid 2,000ft across may have caused a mini ice-age in 535AD From The Daily Mail: A giant meteorite that b...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

U.S. Scientists Call For The Creation Of An International Asteroid Defense Agency

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Asteroid Defense Let's not keep the proposals too long in committee, yeah? NASA/Don Davis From Popular Science: Russia's proposal ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Mystery Object On Course To Whiz Past Earth

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The near-Earth object known as 2010 AL30 appears as a spot against the background streaks of stars in this image from the Skylive-Grove Cree...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Russia Plans to Save Earth From Rogue Asteroid; ‘No Nuclear Explosions,’ Space Chief Promises (Updated)

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From The Danger Room: Vlad Putin, we’re sorry we ever made fun of you. In an interview today with Voice of Russia radio, Russia’s space agen...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

How High Will The Seas Go In A Warmer World?

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Remi Benali / Corbis From Time Magazine: Even as negotiators scramble to salvage an agreement at the foundering Copenhagen climate talks, a ...