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Illustration by John MacNeill MEET 1950DA This 1-kilometer-wide rock is the only known big asteroid on a possible collision course with Earth. But until the asteroid search is done, we won't know if...
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In Case of Asteroid Threat, Deploy Tug-Sats and Heavy Rockets, Apollo...
Deep Impact Probe An artist's rendering of NASA's Deep Impact probe, which crashed into a comet in 2005. NASA As evidenced by NASA's confirmation last week of an asteroid collision observed by Hubble,...
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Solar Sail Arrays Could Be Used to Divert Incoming Asteroids by Shading Them...
Solar Sails Could Divert Asteroids Like Apophis Olivier Boisard via SPACEMost asteroid diversion schemes tend to involve some kind of impact – an explosion, a crash, a violent shove – but a French...
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How it Would Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast
Earth, and the Near-Earth Objects that Threaten It ESA - P.Carril One way or another, it's on everyone's minds, living somewhere in the back of our collective consciousness. Hollywood knows it, and...
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B612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission
Sentinel's Orbit B612 This morning at the California Academy of Sciences, a team of former astronauts, space scientists, NASA alums, and other concerned citizens of the solar system announced an...
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How To Watch Menacing Space Rock Apophis Fly Past Earth Tomorrow
Deadly Space Rocks ESA - P.Carril Although not nearly as threatening as it was first perceived to be upon its discovery, the asteroid 99942 Apophis still has a very slight chance of impacting our...
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Trial Run Mission Will Make Sure Asteroid Deflection Method Really Works
AIDA Mission Concept The US-European Asteroid Impact and Deflection mission, or AIDA, would send two small spacecraft to intercept a binary asteroid. The first Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
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A New Fleet Of Robot Asteroid Prospectors Will Launch By 2015
Asteroid Harvesting Newly announced asteroid mining concern Deep Space Industries aims to harvest asteroid material for a 3-D printing outpost, as well as for new space architecture to replace...
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How Powerful New Telescopes Are Helping Us Spot More Asteroids, Maybe Just In...
Asteroids Seen By WISE The rectangles with red dots indicate near-Earth asteroids as seen by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. NASA A giant space rock is hurtling toward Earth eight times...
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Shouldn't We Have Been Able To See This Huge Meteor Coming?
Fireball Feb. 15 NEproskochil/via YouTube Friday morning's meteor, the largest object to strike Earth in more than a century, took the whole planet by surprise. But maybe it didn't have to. There's a...
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Analysis: Russian Meteorite Was An Everyday Space Rock, Common Throughout The...
Space Rock Fragments Ural Federal University The giant space rock that exploded above Russia earlier this month spent about 4.5 billion years cruising around the solar system before its fiery arrival...
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European Space Agency Decides Which Asteroid They'll Go Smash Into First
Didymos And Its Moon ESA A European mission to intercept and deflect an asteroid now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission couldn't have had...
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Astronomers Calculate Russian Meteorite's Orbit, Find It Has 80 Million Cousins
Asteroid Orbits Both the asteroid 2012DA14 and the Chelyabinsk meteorite came from the asteroid belt, but from different orbits. Earth's orbit is shown in green. NASA Thanks to dozens of video...
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In The Same Cataclysm That Gave The Moon Its Craters, Lots Of Asteroids...
Near Side Of the Moon NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter About 4 billion years ago, something caused Jupiter and the other gas giant planets to shift in their orbits, shoving countless space rocks out...
View ArticleB612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission
This morning at the California Academy of Sciences, a team of former astronauts, space scientists, NASA alums, and other concerned citizens of the solar system announced an…
View ArticleHow To Watch Menacing Space Rock Apophis Fly Past Earth Tomorrow
Although not nearly as threatening as it was first perceived to be upon its discovery, the asteroid 99942 Apophis still has a very slight chance of impacting our planet on…
View ArticleTrial Run Mission Will Make Sure Asteroid Deflection Method Really Works
We may be safe from killer asteroid Apophis, but plenty of other near-Earth asteroids could pose a threat sooner or later. Sure, humans could send up a probe or a space…
View ArticleA New Fleet Of Robot Asteroid Prospectors Will Launch By 2015
Another new asteroid mining venture plans to send fleets of small spacecraft to rendezvous with space rocks, aiming to harvest their contents. That makes two startups now…
View ArticleHow Powerful New Telescopes Are Helping Us Spot More Asteroids, Maybe Just In...
A giant space rock is hurtling toward Earth eight times faster than a speeding bullet, and it's scheduled to buzz our geosynchronous satellites tomorrow around dinnertime.
View ArticleShouldn't We Have Been Able To See This Huge Meteor Coming?
Friday morning's meteor, the largest object to strike Earth in more than a century, took the whole planet by surprise. But maybe it didn't have to. There's a chance the…
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