Near-Earth Object Impact News

Posted May 20, 2013:

• The Mammoth's Lament: How Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change

Posted May 16, 2013:

• Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship

Posted May 15, 2013:

• New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year

Posted May 9, 2013:

• Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source

Posted May 6, 2013:

• Wind, Not Water, Formed Mound on Mars, New Analysis Suggests

Posted May 1, 2013:

• Studying Meteorites May Reveal Mars' Secrets of Life

Posted April 23, 2013:

• Hubble Captures Comet ISON
• Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact

Posted April 17, 2013:

• How to Target an Asteroid

Posted April 15, 2013:

• NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test
• Update: Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

Posted April 11, 2013:

• NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It

Posted April 4, 2013:

• A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs, Experts Propose
• Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered

Posted April 3, 2013:

• Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets

Posted April 2, 2013:

• Craters on the Moon: Pre-Existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts

Posted March 27, 2013:

• New Evidence Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm on Earth

Posted March 25, 2013:

• Moon and Asteroids Share History, NASA Scientists Find

Posted March 19, 2013:

• NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell
• Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET

Posted March 18, 2013:

• Leaping Lunar Dust: Electrically Charged Dust Near Shadowed Craters Can Get Lofted Above Moon's Surface

Posted March 8, 2013:

• Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

Posted March 7, 2013:

• Southampton Scientist Investigates Russian Meteor

Posted March 6, 2013:

• Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

Posted March 5, 2013:

• New Evidence That Comets Could Have Seeded Life on Earth
• Iowa Meteorite Crater Confirmed: USGS Airborne Surveys Back Up Previous Decorah Research

Posted February 28, 2013:

• Antarctic Scientists Discover 18-Kilogram Meteorite

Posted February 22, 2013:

• European Space Agency's AIDA Mission Now Has a Target: Asteroid Didymos

Posted February 21, 2013:

• How to Kill an Asteroid? Get out a Paint Spray Gun

Posted February 19, 2013:

• NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14

Posted February 18, 2013:

• Water on the Moon: It's Been There All Along

Posted February 14, 2013:

• Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Preview Appearance

Posted February 15, 2013:

• Russian Asteroid Strike: Numerous Injuries, Significant Damage
• Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby, Preliminary Data Indicate

Posted February 13, 2013:

• Simulation Helps Scientists Better Understand the Origin of Our Solar System

Posted February 12, 2013:

• 'Near-Miss' Asteroid Tracked

Posted February 8, 2013:

• New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard

Posted February 7, 2013:

• New Evidence Suggests Comet or Asteroid Impact Was Last Straw for Dinosaurs

Posted February 5, 2013:

• NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON

Posted February 4, 2013:

• Small Asteroid to Whiz Past Earth Safely

Posted January 31, 2013:

• Study Rebuts Hypothesis That Comet Attacks Ended 9,000-Year-Old Clovis Culture

Posted January 29, 2013:

• Fossilized Conduits Suggest Water Flowed Beneath Martian Surface

Posted January 22, 2013:

• NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year
• Mars' Reull Vallis: A River Ran Through It

Posted January 20, 2013:

• Mars May Have Supported Life: Martian Underground Could Contain Clues to Life's Origins

Posted January 17, 2013:

• Saturn's Largest Moon Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover'

Posted January 15, 2013:

• Asteroid Deflection Mission Seeks Smashing Ideas

Posted January 11, 2013:

• NASA Rules out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis

Posted January 10, 2013:

• Oxygen to the Core: Earth's Core Formed Under More Oxidizing Conditions Than Previously Proposed

Posted January 9, 2013:

• Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid Apophis

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