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  Asteroid Deflection Mission Seeks Smashing Ideas

  January 15, 2013 — A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster -- an untested mission to deflect it -- fails. This fictional scene of films ... > full story
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  NASA Rules out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis

  January 11, 2013 — NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The ... > full story
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  Oxygen to the Core: Earth's Core Formed Under More Oxidizing Conditions Than Previously Proposed

  January 10, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that Earth's core formed under more oxidizing conditions than previously proposed. While scientists know that Earth accreted from some mixture of meteoritic material, there ... > full story
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  Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid Apophis

  January 9, 2013 — Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend. The data show the asteroid to be bigger than first estimated, and ... > full story
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  Hubble Image: The Galaxy Puzzle in the Constellation of Centaurus

  January 7, 2013 — The Universe loves to fool our eyes, giving the impression that celestial objects are located at the same distance from Earth. A good example can be seen in a new spectacular image produced by the ... > full story
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  First Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust

  January 3, 2013 — After extensive analyses, researchers have identified a new class of Martian meteorite that likely originated from Mars's crust. It is also the only meteoritic sample dated to 2.1 billion years ago, ... > full story
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  Carbon in Vesta's Craters: Asteroid Impacts May Have Transferred Carbonaceous Material to Protoplanet and Inner Solar System

  January 3, 2013 — The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were ... > full story
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  Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected

  December 20, 2012 — A new study indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously ... > full story
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  Meteorite Triggered Scientific 'Gold Rush'

  December 20, 2012 — A meteorite that exploded as a fireball over California's Sierra foothills this past spring was among the fastest, rarest meteorites known to have hit the Earth, and it traveled a highly eccentric ... > full story

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  Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth

  December 16, 2012 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid ... > full story

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