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Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March
March 8, 2013 — Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to see one of these icy dirtballs ... > full story -
Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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Natural Disasters
Southampton Scientist Investigates Russian Meteor
March 7, 2013 — Dr Hugh Lewis from the University of Southampton has analysed the recent extraordinary Russian meteor event using the "NEOImpactor" tool, which was developed by researchers from the University and ... > full story -
Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
March 6, 2013 — Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October ... > full story -
Origin of Life
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New Evidence That Comets Could Have Seeded Life on Earth
March 5, 2013 — Scientists have shown that complex molecules can form on icy dust in space, suggesting that comets may have brought these molecules to Earth and seeded the growth of more complex building blocks of ... > full story -
Iowa Meteorite Crater Confirmed: USGS Airborne Surveys Back Up Previous Decorah Research
March 5, 2013 — Recent airborne geophysical surveys near Decorah, Iowa are providing an unprecedented look at a 470-million-year-old meteorite crater concealed beneath bedrock and sediments. The aerial surveys, a ... > full story -
Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
Near-Earth Object Impacts
Energy and the Environment
Solar System
Global Warming
Renewable Energy
Antarctic Scientists Discover 18-Kilogram Meteorite
February 28, 2013 — An international team of scientists have discovered a meteorite with a mass of 18 kilograms embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite found in the region since ... > full story -
European Space Agency's AIDA Mission Now Has a Target: Asteroid Didymos
February 22, 2013 — The European Space Agency'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's close encounter ... > full story -
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Geology
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Environmental Issues
How to Kill an Asteroid? Get out a Paint Spray Gun
February 21, 2013 — There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It’s a plan to deflect ... > full story -
NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14
February 19, 2013 — 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 Space Network antenna at Goldstone, ... > full story -
Water on the Moon: It's Been There All Along
February 18, 2013 — Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to ... > full story
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