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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...
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...
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'...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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