Near-Earth Object Impact News

Posted March 29, 2008:

• Kilauea Volcano Erupts Explosively And Vents Noxious Gas

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Do Meteors Create Life? Explosion Of New Life Coincided With Hundreds Of Meteorite Impacts

Posted January 24, 2008:

• Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash

Posted December 19, 2007:

• Supercomputers Offer New Explanation Of Tunguska Disaster

Posted November 14, 2007:

• World's First HDTV Image Of 'Earth-rise' Over Moon

Posted October 22, 2007:

• Asteroid Is 'Practice Case' For Potential Hazards

Posted July 9, 2007:

• Countries Most At Risk Of 'Small' Asteroid Impact Identified

Posted July 3, 2007:

• Earth And Mars Are Different To The Core, Scientists Find

Posted April 19, 2007:

• Celestial Fender-Bender Left Asteroid To Cool Without Insulation

Posted January 22, 2007:

• Geologist Gets To The Bottom Of Chicxulub Impact Crater

Posted December 24, 2006:

• Naval Research Laboratory Scientists Analyze Comet Wild 2 Samples

Posted December 5, 2006:

• NASA Scientists Find Primordial Organic Matter In Meteorite

Posted October 24, 2006:

• Far More Than A Meteor Killed Dinos, Evidence Suggests

Posted September 27, 2006:

• Meteorites Record Past Solar Activity

Posted September 15, 2006:

• New Lunar Meteorite Found In Antarctica

Posted June 1, 2006:

• Big Bang In Antarctica: Killer Crater Found Under Ice

Posted April 21, 2006:

• One-of-a-kind Meteorite Unveiled

Posted April 3, 2006:

• Asteroids: Treasures Of The Past And A Threat To The Future

Posted March 4, 2006:

• Largest Crater In The Great Sahara Discovered By Boston University Scientists

Posted January 15, 2006:

• Crater Drilling Declared Major Success: More Than A Mile-long Core Retrieved

Posted December 30, 2005:

• Revising Earth's Early History

Posted October 3, 2005:

• Meteorites Offer Glimpse Of The Early Earth, Say Purdue Scientists

Posted September 21, 2005:

• Earliest Meteorites Provide New Piece In Planetary Formation Puzzle

Posted September 11, 2005:

• Calculations Favor Reducing Atmopshere For Early Earth

Posted August 10, 2005:

• Meteor Impacts: Life's Jump Starter?

Posted July 4, 2005:

• What's Inside A Comet? Brown Geologist Helps NASA Find Out

Posted April 30, 2005:

• Written In Dust: Microscopic Particles From Space Rain Down On Earth

Posted April 19, 2005:

• Revised Asteroid Scale Aids Understanding Of Impact Risk

Posted April 6, 2005:

• Mystery Minerals Formed In Fireball From Colliding Asteroid That Destroyed The Dinosaurs

Posted March 26, 2005:

• Proba Workshop: Small Satellite Yielding Beautiful Results

Posted January 25, 2005:

• A Seismic Shift In Understanding How The Earth Got Its Gas

Posted January 23, 2005:

• New Evidence Indicates Biggest Extinction Wasn't Caused By Asteroid Or Comet

Posted October 25, 2004:

• Martian Meteorite Measurements Give Information On Planet Evolution

Posted October 4, 2004:

• Seismic Study Of Ancient Cataclysm Begins

Posted October 1, 2004:

• Scientists Issue Mount St. Helens Volcanic Advisory

Posted August 25, 2004:

• Meteorites Supplied Earth Life With Phosphorus, Scientists Say

Posted July 21, 2004:

• New Martian Meteorite Found In Antarctica

Posted July 14, 2004:

• ESA Considers The Next Step In Assessing The Risk From Near-Earth Objects

Posted June 18, 2004:

• Did Comets Flood Earth's Oceans?

Posted May 14, 2004:

• Impact At Bedout: 'Smoking Gun' Of Giant Collision That Nearly Ended Life On Earth Is Identified

Posted April 12, 2004:

• Web-based Program Calculates Effects Of An Earth Impact

Posted April 9, 2004:

• Astronomers Take Search For Earth-Threatening Space Rocks To Southern Skies

Posted March 8, 2004:

• A World Ruled By Fungi

Posted February 4, 2004:

• Astronomers Unravel A Mystery Of The Dark Ages: Undergraduates' Work Blames Comet For 6th-century 'Nuclear Winter'

Posted December 2, 2003:

• Meteor Likely Caused Earth's Greatest Extinction Event

Posted November 21, 2003:

• New Evidence Says Earth’s Greatest Extinction Caused By Ancient Meteorite

Posted September 15, 2003:

• Is This What Killed The Dinosaurs? New Evidence Supports Volcanic Eruption Theory

Posted May 28, 2003:

• Massive Tsunami Sweeps Atlantic Coast In Asteroid Impact Scenario For March 16, 2880

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