Near-Earth Object Impact News

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  Ancient Asteroids Formed At Solar System's Start

  March 20, 2008 — Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, astronomers have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our solar system's oldest ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Mars, Earth And Moon From 'Unique Planetary Nursery'

  March 19, 2008 — A study of meteorites suggests that Mars, the Earth and the Moon share a common composition from 'growing up' in a unique planetary nursery in the inner solar system. The finding could lead to a ... > full story
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  Mars Express Reveals The Red Planet's Volcanic Past

  March 14, 2008 — A new analysis of impact cratering data from Mars reveals that the planet has undergone a series of global volcanic upheavals. These violent episodes spewed lava and water onto the surface, sculpting ... > full story
• Origin of Life
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  Charles Darwin
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  Do Meteors Create Life? Explosion Of New Life Coincided With Hundreds Of Meteorite Impacts

  March 14, 2008 — Meteorite impacts are often associated with huge disasters, mass extinction and why the dinosaurs disappeared from the face of the Earth some 65 million years ago. However, the opposite may also ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Origin of Life
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  Life's Building Blocks From Space? Meteorites A Rich Source For Primordial Soup

  March 13, 2008 — The organic soup that spawned life on Earth may have gotten generous helpings from outer space, according to a new study. Scientists have discovered concentrations of amino acids in two meteorites ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  How The Peruvian Meteorite Made It To Earth

  March 11, 2008 — A new study of the Peruvian meteorite has yielded some interesting conclusions that could upend the conventional wisdom about the size and type of meteorites that can strike Earth. Scientists have ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Astronomers Capture Rare Video Of Meteor Falling To Earth; Hunt For Meteorite

  March 7, 2008 — Astronomers have captured rare video of a meteor falling to Earth with one of a network of all-sky cameras in Southern Ontario. On March 5, 2008 cameras captured a video of a large fireball. Now the ... > full story
• Mars
  Space Exploration
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  Possibly Once-Habitable Ancient Martian Lake Discovered

  March 6, 2008 — Scientists have discovered never-before-seen impact "megabreccia" and a possibly once-habitable ancient lake on Mars at a place called Holden crater. Topping the clay layers that formed in the placid ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Origin of Life
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  Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered

  February 28, 2008 — An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of "handedness" in biomolecules. Researchers have found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth ... > full story
• Venus
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  Did A Mega-Collision Alter Venus?

  February 26, 2008 — A mega-collision between two large embryonic planets could have created Venus as we know it, according to a new paper by a Cardiff University scientist. Venus is a sister planet to Earth. It is ... > full story

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