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  Fallout of a Giant Meteorite Strike Revealed in New Model

  October 19, 2011 — Seeking to better understand the level of death and destruction that would result from a large meteorite striking Earth, researchers have developed a new model that can not only more accurately ... > full story
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  NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System

  October 19, 2011 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as ... > full story
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  Starburst Captured: Students Photograph Exploding Star in Pinwheel Galaxy

  October 18, 2011 — In the Pinwheel Galaxy some 21 million light years from Earth, a supernova beams brightly, out-shining its cosmic neighbors and causing a stir among ... > full story
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  CSI-Style Investigation of Meteorite Hits on Earth

  October 18, 2011 — Volcanologists have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding ... > full story
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  NASA's Dawn Science Team Presents Early Science Results

  October 14, 2011 — Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are sharing with other scientists and the public their early information about the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid ... > full story
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  Amateur Skywatchers Help Space Hazards Team

  October 12, 2011 — For the first time, observations coordinated by the European Space Agency's space hazards team have found an asteroid that comes close enough to Earth to pose an impact threat. The space rock was ... > full story
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  Almahata Sitta Meteorite Could Come from Triple Asteroid Mash-Up

  October 7, 2011 — Analysis of fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, which landed in Sudan in 2008, has shown that the parent asteroid was probably formed through collisions of three different types of asteroids. ... > full story
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  Astronomers Hone in on the Cause of Asteroid Scheila’s Outburst

  October 7, 2011 — A remarkable discovery was made by astronomers on Dec. 12, 2010: an asteroid named Scheila had changed its appearance and looked more like a comet, complete with bright tail. An international team of ... > full story
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  First Comet Found With Ocean-Like Water

  October 5, 2011 — New evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth's oceans, which scientists believe formed about eight million years after the planet ... > full story

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  Hyperactive Hartley 2 Has a Split History, Comet-Exploring Spacecraft Finds

  October 4, 2011 — The latest analysis of data from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft shows that comet 103P/Hartley 2 is hyperactive in terms of the material it spews out, compared to the other comets observed up close to ... > full story

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