Near-Earth Object Impact News

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

Posted January 7, 2013:

• Hubble Image: The Galaxy Puzzle in the Constellation of Centaurus

Posted January 3, 2013:

• First Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust
• Carbon in Vesta's Craters: Asteroid Impacts May Have Transferred Carbonaceous Material to Protoplanet and Inner Solar System

Posted December 20, 2012:

• Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected
• Meteorite Triggered Scientific 'Gold Rush'

Posted December 16, 2012:

• Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth

Posted December 11, 2012:

• Grains Gang Up to Bear Brunt of Missile and Meteorite Impacts

Posted December 6, 2012:

• What Is Creating Gullies on Giant Asteroid Vesta?

Posted December 5, 2012:

• NASA Twin Spacecraft Create Most Accurate Gravity Map of Moon

Posted December 4, 2012:

• NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim

Posted November 27, 2012:

• Nine Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8

Posted November 26, 2012:

• How Does a Volcanic Crater Grow? Grab Some TNT and Find out

Posted November 23, 2012:

• Materials Science: One Size Cloaks All

Posted November 19, 2012:

• Mars Formed from Similar Building Blocks to That of Earth, Reveals Study of Martian Meteorites

Posted November 15, 2012:

• NASA Innovator of Year Hunts for Extraterrestrial Amino Acids
• 'Space Gems': Rare Meteorites Created in Violent Celestial Collision
• Meteorites Reveal Warm Water Existed on Mars

Posted November 6, 2012:

• NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8

Posted November 4, 2012:

• Scientists Monitor Comet Breakup

Posted November 2, 2012:

• NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere

Posted November 1, 2012:

• Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size Are Friendly to Life
• Nereidum Montes Helps Unlock Mars' Glacial Past

Posted October 29, 2012:

• Mass Extinction Study Provides Lessons for Modern World
• 'Curiosity' on Mars Sits on Rocks Similar to Those Found in Marshes in Mexico

Posted October 17, 2012:

• New Model Reconciles the Moon's Earth-Like Composition With the Giant Impact Theory of Formation
• Moon Was Created in Giant Smashup; Vaporization of Impactor Left Signature in Tiny Excess of Heavier Form of Zinc

Posted October 15, 2012:

• Scientists Provide Window on Space Radiation Hazards

Posted October 12, 2012:

• Meteorite Hunters: How to Hunt a Space Rock
• Mars Rover Curiosity Preparing for Second Scoop

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Meteorite Delivers Martian Secrets

Posted October 10, 2012:

• Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover

Posted October 5, 2012:

• Deep Impact Spacecraft Completes Rocket Burn

Posted October 4, 2012:

• Asteroid Fragments Could Hint at the Origin of the Solar System
• NASA's Curiosity Rover Checks in on Mars Using Foursquare

Posted September 26, 2012:

• Asteroid's Troughs Suggest Stunted Planet
• Ancient Buddhist Statue Made of Meteorite, New Study Reveals

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