Near-Earth Object Impact News

Posted January 29, 2011:

• Asteroid Deflection: What If a Huge Asteroid Was Going to Slam Into Earth?

Posted January 27, 2011:

• NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Jupiter Scar Likely from Titanic-Sized Asteroid

Posted January 19, 2011:

• NASA Spacecraft Prepares for Valentine's Day Comet Rendezvous

Posted January 20, 2011:

• Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary

Posted January 19, 2011:

• More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients

Posted January 12, 2011:

• NASA Radar Reveals Features on Asteroid

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Water on Moon Originated from Comets

Posted December 17, 2010:

• Unprecedented Topographic Map of the Moon

Posted December 15, 2010:

• NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment of Meteorites
• Meteorite Just One Piece of an Unknown Celestial Body

Posted December 10, 2010:

• Wind and Water Have Shaped Schiaparelli Impact Basin on Mars

Posted December 9, 2010:

• New Insights Into Formation of Earth, the Moon, and Mars

Posted November 22, 2010:

• NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Burns for Another Comet Flyby

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Discovery Could Reveal Secrets of Ancient Martian and Terrestrial Atmospheres

Posted November 4, 2010:

• Deep Impact Spacecraft Successfully Flies by Comet Hartley 2

Posted October 29, 2010:

• Space Radar Provides a Taste of Comet Hartley 2

Posted October 22, 2010:

• New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft
• Lunar 'Permafrost': Evidence for Widespread Water Ice on the Moon

Posted October 21, 2010:

• NASA-Engineered Collision Spills New Moon Secrets
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Ultraviolet Spectrograph Observes LCROSS Blast, Detects Surprising Gases in Impact Plume

Posted October 13, 2010:

• Bizarre X-Shaped Intruder Linked to an Unseen Asteroid Collision

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Probed in Preparation for DIXI/EPOXI Flyby

Posted October 5, 2010:

• WISE Captures Key Images of Comet Mission's Destination

Posted September 27, 2010:

• First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered by Pan-STARRS Telescope

Posted September 23, 2010:

• Egyptian Desert Expedition Confirms Spectacular Meteorite Impact

Posted September 20, 2010:

• Earth to Have Closest Encounter With Jupiter Until 2022
• Martian Moon Phobos May Have Formed by Catastrophic Blast

Posted September 16, 2010:

• Moon's Craters Give New Clues to Early Solar System Bombardment

Posted September 13, 2010:

• Supernova Shrapnel Found in Meteorite

Posted September 10, 2010:

• Amateur Astronomers Open Potential Lab in Outer Space for Planetary Scientists, Researcher Says

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Tally-Ho! Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet Target
• Opportunity Rover Reaches Halfway Point of Long Trek to Mars Crater
• Caught in the Act: Fireballs Light Up Jupiter
• Phoenix Mars Lander Finds Surprises About Red Planet's Watery Past

Posted September 8, 2010:

• Two Asteroids to Pass by Earth

Posted September 6, 2010:

• Colorful Mix of Asteroids Discovered, May Aid Future Space Travel

Posted August 27, 2010:

• Mars's Mysterious Elongated Crater

Posted August 19, 2010:

• NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals 'Incredible Shrinking Moon'

Posted July 27, 2010:

• Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Might Collide With the Earth in 2182

Posted July 14, 2010:

• Fascinating Images from a New World: Close-Ups of the Asteroid Lutetia

Posted July 11, 2010:

• Rosetta Triumphs at Asteroid Lutetia

Posted July 9, 2010:

• Heavy Metal Rock Set to Take the Stage

Posted July 2, 2010:

• Watch While an Asteroid Eats a Star

Posted July 1, 2010:

• Man in the Moon Has 'Graphite Whiskers'

Posted June 29, 2010:

• 'Hitchhiker' EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2

Posted June 28, 2010:

• Rocky Mounds and a Plateau on Mars

Posted June 25, 2010:

• Deep Impact Spacecraft to Make Last Swing by Earth on Way to Second Comet

Posted June 24, 2010:

• New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars Was Global

Posted June 15, 2010:

• Rosetta's Blind Date With Asteroid Lutetia

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