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Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Preview Appearance
February 14, 2013 — Like trailers for the coming attraction, new images show asteroid 2012 DA14 on its way to a record-close approach to Earth on Feb. 15. One image, taken by amateur astronomer Dave Herald of ... > full story -
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Russian Asteroid Strike: Numerous Injuries, Significant Damage
February 15, 2013 — A space rock a few metres across exploded in Earth's atmosphere above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia today (Feb. 15, 2013) at about 03:15 GMT. The numerous injuries and significant damage remind us ... > full story -
Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby, Preliminary Data Indicate
February 15, 2013 — Preliminary information indicates that a meteor in Chelyabinsk, Russia, is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14, which is flying by Earth safely ... > full story -
Simulation Helps Scientists Better Understand the Origin of Our Solar System
February 13, 2013 — Simulations boost the significance of image and measurement data from space missions: based on the example of an asteroid. Astrophysicists show collisions with other celestial bodies can be ... > full story -
'Near-Miss' Asteroid Tracked
February 12, 2013 — An asteroid the size of a small office block is due to pass by Earth on Friday 15 February in one of the closest ‘near-misses’ in recent history. Although there is no chance of the ... > full story -
New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard
February 8, 2013 — 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. Tiny asteroids are much more numerous ... > full story -
New Evidence Suggests Comet or Asteroid Impact Was Last Straw for Dinosaurs
February 7, 2013 — While many assume that a comet or asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs, the actual dates of the impact and extinction are imprecise enough that some have questioned the connection. Scientists ... > full story -
NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON
February 5, 2013 — 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 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, ... > full story -
Small Asteroid to Whiz Past Earth Safely
February 4, 2013 — The small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth on February 15, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. NASA's ... > full story -
Study Rebuts Hypothesis That Comet Attacks Ended 9,000-Year-Old Clovis Culture
January 31, 2013 — Rebutting a speculative hypothesis that comet explosions changed Earth's climate sufficiently to end the Clovis culture in North America about 13,000 years ago, researchers assert that other ... > full storyMore:
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