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  NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

  March 19, 2013 — Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft went out in a blaze ... > full story
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  Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET

  March 19, 2013 — A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... > full story
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  Leaping Lunar Dust: Electrically Charged Dust Near Shadowed Craters Can Get Lofted Above Moon's Surface

  March 18, 2013 — Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... > full story
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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
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  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
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  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
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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
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  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
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  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
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  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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